Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the War he has commanded the New York, been Governor of the Virgin Islands, Director of Naval Intelligence at Washington. Two years ago he was appointed again to an active service post as Commander of the Yangtze Patrol Force...
Author Leonard Cline has been weaving spells* in the vicinity of Englewood, N. J. He has regrown the virgin forest there and placed in its tangled heart a mansion full of dark madness...
...region around Point Sur is already crowded with psychic disturbances. While dry winds blew, followed by a night "striped with lightning" and a day of yellow floods, two boys crucified a hawk; their brother, a visionary, saw the Virgin walking on the sea, mountain tall, mourning her lover; a ranch girl fled to her man to slake her fear of death; the lighthouse keeper's daughter, Faith Heriot, went in a famine of unnatural love to Natalia Morhead, whose husband's act unsexed Faith Heriot two years before. Morhead is not back from the War. Faith nurses his crippled father...
...unreels the story of an Ohio boy whose domineering mother married him off young and innocent to a pallid missionary, a virgin before the Lord, called Naomi. In an Africa which Mr. Bromfield must have studied up on lurid picture postcards, Philip Downes revolts against his calling and celibacy. Attacked by bloodthirsty blackamoors, he narrowly escapes with life and wife back to Ohio, where he enters a steel mill and espouses his fellow-workers' cause. Just before they go on a losing strike, he slips off unexpectedly into a career of painting...
...Fountain of the Virgin, where once the Blessed Virgin traditionally drew water and washed the swaddling clothes of the Infant Savior, several women were engaged last week in similar tasks when the earthquake came. Although part of the ledge of the holy well crumbled and fell among them none were injured...