Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against these arguments the priest advances only feeble opposition, does not use the dialectic resources of the Church. When Joel calls life "an eddy in the Second Law of Thermodynamics'' the priest does not draw attention to the Virgin Birth. But the scientist's ratiocinations leave him unconvinced. When the anchor-chain grates overboard at Port Said, Joel finds the out-argued priest sticking to his divine guns still. Joel cannot figure him out. Also he sweats less than Joel, does not seem to mind the stewing heat. He is a queer fish too. Kamongo...
Devoutly the mothers of the two youths besought the Blessed Virgin to intercede with her Son, then besought the old mother of President Sanchez Cerro to intercede with her son. Still weak from loss of blood, punctured President Sanchez Cerro lay abed...
...wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss. Violets, daisies and goldenrod are all right...
Pastmaster at exorcising goatish emanations from rural England's maids, meadows, men and mud, Author Powys sticks to his increasingly familiar incantation like a leech. As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar. Only one newcomer is in the book, Last Comer Death...
Before she left for Europe this winter, Soprano Mary Garden behaved in a fashion unusual for a concert artist. She volunteered to cut her $3,000 concert fee. "Butter & eggs are cheaper," she said brusquely to her new managers, "why not concert artists?" No foolish virgin, Mary Garden was doing of her own accord what many another artist is being forced to do. Last week with the booking season at its height it was evident that artists' fees are well on the road to deflation. A dozen music salesmen were on the road selling singers, fiddlers & pianists...