Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...
Last week Cape Breton's Scots gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...
...Queen's Approval. Queen Victoria herself drove past and ordered the carriage slowed while she put on her spectacles to favor Tate's treat with an approving stare. The gallery-looming like a giant white stone wedding cake above the trees at Millbank-was destined to become almost as familiar a London tourist-haunt as Madame Tussaud's waxworks. Last week, the Tate was celebrating its 50th anniversary with a crowd-pulling show from its own storerooms, which boast Britain's best collection of English painting (including a fine group of Blakes) and of modern...
...farm, and hated to plow. He was handsome, tall, wavy-haired, had long eyelashes and a faint but unmistakable resemblance to Comic Danny Kaye. He had a fecund imagination and an instinctive sense of drama and command. At 18 he professed to be able to look into a "peep stone" and find hidden gold. He found none...
...hires a hall is taking a stand, as your editorialist puts it, in "the marketplace of political discussion." We are all in that marketplace; there is a certain physical distance between Cambridge and the Old South, but we hear such a man as Gerald Smith nonetheless, unless we are stone deaf. The man needed answering last Sunday, and since Smith's writings and speeches are uniformly studded with such phrases as "to hell with democracy" and "when chaos comes, I will be the leader," it was quite reasonable that he be answered before he spoke at all. The Crimson editorialist...