Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from constant paint in drugs, limned the pagan folk of "Bloody Hiva-oa" for all the world, and lies now in an unknown grave overlooking the Bay of Atuona...
...Morelli was admirable, but its rendition by Helen Ware was supreme. It is the height of acting when a personality crosses the footlights. Miss Ware not only achieved this, but achieved it with a grace and poise which have seldom been equalled. Who would not be a "Pagan...