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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artist who had not been able to make his hands behave, gave up art for surveying, then became Mayor of Creille, tiny mountain village in the Maritime Alps," not far from Nice. There he ruled supreme, a benevolent despot. Fontenay, an English painter, meets Mayor Tombarel, falls under the spell of his courteous, charm, becomes a frequent visitor, a fast friend. In the shady garden of Tombarel's mountain house or in Fonte-nay's villa at Nice the old Frenchman passes many an hour in wordy reminiscence. At each encounter he narrates an episode, always honorable...
...Bridget? You should spell it Brigid, which is correct. Where do you get your saints from? Rome? Read the history of St. Brigid of Ireland who was famed for her beauty, piety and learning. She founded convents, schools of learning all over Europe. When Ireland was the seat of learning for Europe, England was famous for the people running around naked in poverty and ignorance was popular in England...
Emerging from what he claimed was "a spell," Teller Wyre discovered that bills and women were gone. To police he insisted he had been hypnotized. Newark police arrested, Teller Wyre identified as one of his able befuddlers, a swart, shrewd woman who called herself Annie Bimbo...
...first two weeks they refuted the common objections to socialism. Communism was denounced last week. Tonight the subject is "Graft Unions vs. Labor Unions." The spell-binders are being led by Alfred Baker Lewis, former candidate for senator and now secretary of the New England Socialist Party...
Sometimes it is a little hard to slip back into the traces that guide one in the straight and narrow path. It took inducements of no mean nature to draw the Vagabond down from the hills where long winter evenings and well-thumbed books hold their spell. But a glance every now and then at the lectures scheduled for the coming few weeks will make perfectly clear just why the old rover has returned...