Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house Vermont's youngest and most experimental college, some 150 acolytes, many of them heads of dance departments in other colleges, leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington's modern dancers heaved together in a lusty assembl...
...Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition to be a priest...
...regard his subscribers as students, tries to teach them to read the auguries themselves. He warns them that the theory is not infallible, is not very definite, shows direction not distance, often gives no positive signal until much of the movement has passed. That it has worked for High Priest Rhea, Certified Public Accountant O. M. Williams certifies as follows: "I have audited the accounts of Robert Rhea and those of a corporation and two trusts operated by him and for his benefit. . . . My findings were that on total transactions [over nearly a ten-year period] involving 601,612 shares...
...March 1937, High Priest Rhea. although he could not say definitely that a bear market was beginning, cautioned his subscribers to think of protecting profits they had made in the bull market since 1932. Six months later, the Dow Theory gave a definite signal that the U. S. was in a bear market (ebb tide), had been in it since March. Thus, because it was succeeded by a wave with a lower crest and a lower trough, the March wave was proved to have been the high mark of the 1932-37 incoming tide. When September's definite signal...
...success than by English reprisal. When Considine was responsible for the death of a suspected spy, and then learned that the man had been innocent, his conscience rode him harder than ever. When he committed adultery with the wife of an informer, it nearly drove him crazy. When a priest refused him absolution, he dropped the revolution, gave himself up, was shot in cold blood. Kilfoyle got away, reflecting sardonically: "The Englishman loves his wife and his dog; the Irishman, his soul...