Word: witch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author, when she published her first book, was probably a little surprised by the bounty of critical praise that was heaped upon it. Lolly Willowes, a demurely wicked spinster who became a witch, was not a figure one would have expected to become the heroine of a widely popular novel. Yet she had the distinction of being the first choice of the Book of the Month Club in the U. S. This new novel, as poetic in its wisdom as the first, was lately chosen by the Literary Guild of America. Of Sylvia Townsend Warner herself very little is allowed...
...TRIUMPH OF YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Boy-witch in fanatical old Germany...
...come in,- Philip Snowden has rasped and torn at every budget presented by his successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer, big, humorous, dynamic Winston S. Churchill. Therefore, because Chancellor Churchill has just presented his new budget (TIME, April 18) onetime Chancellor Snowden hobbled in last week, like a malignant witch doctor and rapped seering words: "The Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] is a costly luxury. . . and a ghastly failure. . . . "His first† budget was a rich man's budget, his second- was that of a profligate bankrupt, and this, his third, is a combination of both with jugglery and deceit added...
When I first saw the cover of the Lampoon's Wonder-Book, I felt sure I should enjoy the number. One could hardly imagine a more charming prelude--a boy and girl wandering across a fairy heath where on near the witch tree and far from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books...
...however, he chooses to feature Professor Murdock's talk on Nathaniel Hawthorne because his first vagabonding beyond Cambridge this spring took him to Salem where he experienced all the thrills of the secret passage way. They were as nothing though to similar ones offered by the streets of the Witch City...