Word: occultism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...
When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...
...close to my heart the current prediction is. There is only one game today, as far as I am concerned. All my skill, shrewdness, and experience goes into this estimate--to say nothing of my reputed occult powers...
Since childhood David Bowes-Lyon has enjoyed the occult reputation of possessing second sight. This was most strikingly demonstrated when he absolutely refused to believe official War Office statements that his brother Michael had been killed in France...
...would like very much to make the acquaintance of a young lady who happens to be interested or engaged in the study of the so-called occult sciences, one who is interested in the study of theosophy, or any branch of mysticism. She should be about 22 or 23 years of age and a brunette. OCCULT...