Word: witch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I returned to the World after a witch's Sabbatical, they told me I should blow off steam in The Nation. They told me there was no governor on that steam. Previously the World maintained its right to censor what I wrote for them. Now it wants to censor what I write elsewhere. After the tradition of Uncle Tom, I can still say that, while my body may have belonged to the Press Publishing Company, my soul belonged...
...lawyers, Percy T. Stiers, made the point that gave the trial its religious significance. Should a confession made, in complete confidence, to a minister, be brought into court as evidence? Lawyer Stiers pointed a thin finger at the Rev. Pardue and called him "a witch-burning Judas." He said: "Let us have freedom to go to our pastors about the things that bear on our souls." At the end there was further exchange of epithet...
...murdering recently British District Commander Captain Ferguson. Result: 34 chiefs of the Lau tribe surrendered, last week, to a small British land force. The chiefs, cowed, were then obliged to watch while British bombers completely demolished their sacred shrine, the Pyramid of Dengkur, long a place of idolatrous, witch-doctoring worship...
...list of titles, dates, and speakers is as follows: January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...
...awful kaffir curse, loud blank shots, and much booming of Afric drums, marked the opening at a theatre in drowsy, medieval Prague, last week, of a U. S. thrill-drama, The Witch Doctor,* once known to Manhattanites as a poor imitation of White Cargo. After three of the characters had been clumsily and blatantly "killed" on the stage, famed Czechoslovakian Playwright Antoine Trych rose from his orchestra seat, drew an automatic pistol, and fired two shots over the heads of the actors. Amid the ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many...