Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slopes of Machu Picchu to show his friends one of the New World's greatest archeological glories. Here was the granite observatory where Inca priests marked the solstices and claimed, each June 21 (when their freezing subjects feared midwinter starvation), that they had tied the sun to a stone. There stood the Emperor's palace, and beyond, the convent of the Vestals of the Sun. Just below were the terraces, where corn, potatoes and tomatoes grew long before the white man ever heard of them...
...chapter asserts this, and the last scenes, with Catalina having become a famous actress, make it more than plain. The book is a suave and ironic rewriting of the classic morality tales of English literature, its lesson as plain as the moral of A Christmas Carol or The Great Stone Face. Since it is written by a craftsman, Catalina has enough interest and enough humor to keep it going, and not too much of anything-not too much of the supernatural to be unbelievable, not too much wit to tax the reader's attention, not too much irony...
Prop men of the Harvard Theater Workshop produced halberds and horses on short notice in the past, but the current production of Troilus and Cressida, slated for the boards on December 8, they have run into a stone wall...
With usury has no man a good house made of stone, no paradise on his church wall...
With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone...