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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning family life in New Ireland: "The selection of a mate is a simplified matter. . . . The young swain (usually about twelve) calls in a love magician . . . [who] casts a spell over the girl. ... If the spell works the girl comes to the man. ... If it doesn't work no fault is found with the magician's services; it is assumed that some enemy magician in another village is casting an evil spirit over the pair to thwart the match...
...past two years rumors issuing from Spain have pictured Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie as coming under the influence of a necromantic physician such as the notorious Rasputin. As doting Tsar Nicholas II fell under Rasputin's spell because he believed that the "Black Monk" and he alone could stop the bleeding of the Tsarevitch, so the Spanish Royal family were said by their enemies to be the dupes of a second charlatan. Spanish censorship veiled the facts...
...last the order is given to cease firing and Peace comes to the student army. Leave is granted. For a brief spell it is Goodbye to all that...
...anti-hitch-hiking law occurred just the sort of thing U. S. motorists have been told may happen if they pick up strangers. Charles Latham of Manhattan, driving out of Knoxville, Tenn., gave a ride to a stranger who said he was a jobless bus operator. Latham let him spell him at the wheel. Suddenly the stranger flipped out a revolver, shot Latham through the side. When Latham attempted to jump from the car, the stranger ordered him back, beat him over the head, drove the car on to Christiansburg, Va., where he escaped. Passing motorists carried Latham...
...from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell of a dissolving world. . . ." Among his more than 70 books: The Black and White Widow, A Doctor of Rare Ingenuity, Torero Caracho, The Chalet of the Roses, The Incongruous...