Word: poacher
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...evangelist from New Jersey, a resolute woman with the mien of an inspired laundress-the Reverend "Bishop" Mrs. Mollie Alma White, founder and primate of the Pillar of Fire Church. Bishop White, who has thousands of disciples ("Holy Jumpers") in the British Isles, clearly regarded Mrs. McPherson as a poacher upon her preserves or worse. Squired by two male Deacons, the Reverend Bishop sat herself down in a box at Albert Hall, with an air of purposing to break up the revival. The dread potency of Bishop White, when aroused against another female, may be judged from her scathing criticisms...
...lovely mate. Dramatic is the first fleeting encounter with his father, aristocrat of animals. And not till he has proved himself worthy of his father's company does the old stag lead Bambi to a solitary haunt, and teach him the necessity of aloneness. He shows him a poacher lying foolishly shot to the ground, forces Bambi to realize that man is not all-powerful, as fawns and silly does suppose, but that there must be a higher power over...
...FIELD OF MUSTARD-A. E. Coppard-Knopf ($2.50). Short-Storyteller Coppard, nut-brown pantheist, transcribes life in hedgerow England with a simplicity that seems accurate and genuine. His overtones are of something dark, gentle, gypsyesque. Some themes: an errant stag and a hearty poacher; lusty village women, lying in a mustard field after fagot-gathering, wish that love could return; the noblesse oblige of a lonely schoolmaster and a proud lady; two aging, air-plant spinsters and how one of them nearly took root in village soil...
...could hear buzzing with her were like three fat blow-flies scavenging in the middle of a road. Their morsel was the subject of the Rev. Mr. Orpin's note, which Wing had come to answer. It was his wife, Brenda, upon one of whose actions a skulking poacher had chanced to spy. During the interview, Wing mentioned his nausea and damned the whole gabbling village...