Word: valas
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...Sang Freud. Near Ahmedabad, India, when his bride went home to her mother after a quarrel, a husband-known only as Vala-went after her, lopped off his mother-in-law's nose, carried his wife away...
...simplest interpretation of the illustrations reproduced on the next two pages hints at the poem's obscurity. On the opposite page, naked Jerusalem, symbolizing a sort of spiritual Utopia, chats with veiled Vala, who symbolizes earthbound womanhood. The children point the way upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...
...special meeting of the Council of the Union was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, and it was decided: 1) that the U. S. was within its rights in excluding (TIME, Sept. 28 CABINET) Saklat-vala, British Communist delegate to the meeting; and 2) that U. S. Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois should be presiding officer of the meetings in Washington...
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