Word: witchcrafts
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...sides, wonder what they are for. The three circles, which often have other cabalistic signs inside them, are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch insurance to ward off the evil eye from the cattle within. Like other farming communities, this rich and peaceful land has its dark traditions, its hexerei (witchcraft). Energetic Thames Williamson, author of four dramatic novels about four different sections of the U. S., now publishes what he calls "a last regional novel" about the Pennsylvania Dutch...
...shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...
...dark night in the washroom of a Long Island beach club, all in the true spirit of fascistic democracy. Although this fistic filibusterer, the Kingfish, in a spirit of pure research, has located him on a preferred list of J.P. Morgan, the financial wizard recently tried for financial witchcraft. Now in the egalitarian thinking of Mr. Long, to be on a Morgan list is to be Morgan-owned, and Mr. Morgan owns Collier's weekly. This was discovered by Huey when he was covering the Morgan investigation for his quaint magazine "The American Progress...
...employees are to be assured of their jobs, rational planning of the type recommended by Dean Donham should be adopted. The madcap antidotes to end depression tried in the past three years, the buying campaigns and bonus crusades, are symptoms of the irrational attitude toward the crash. Neither witchcraft nor behavioristic psychology cured economic ills. Since this depression is largely the result of factors which could have been brought altogether under control, the suggestion that a national planning board could restore prosperity is attractively rational...
Sneered El Excelsior of Mexico City: "In one word, as if by witchcraft. . . . Governor Tejeda becomes as crafty a boss as ever was produced by the Asiatic continent . . . absolute sovereign over all property in Veracruz, a stupendous miracle which would have made Mahomet the prophet envious...