Word: wands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State." He is so superstitious that he cannot relax anywhere he goes until the local authorities produce an albino woman to kiss his hand, habitually carries a magic wand that is supposedly capable of killing any man with a wave...
John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 45, Premier Earl of England and Bearer of the White Wand at the coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II, charged that in 1955, while he was recovering in an iron lung from an attack of polio, his dark-haired wife had had an affair with their children's tutor, a young man (23), fresh down from Cambridge, named Gerald Anthony ("Tonykins") Lowther. For 17 days the court listened to excerpts from letters describing "nights of passion and ecstasy," heard two butlers, a secretary, a nanny and a governess tell...