Word: witches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit of gay illusions. King Alfgar dreams of a witch. He sacrifices his kingdom to wander up and down the land in search of her, in which occupation he grows old. In the end he marries the witch, is rejuvenated, dies. To his publisher Robert M. McBride. Mr. Cabell dedicates "this brief and somewhat tragic tale, to commemorate our long...
Wicked old women have always had uses for foolish young men. The "use to which old Mrs. J. C. Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity...
Carnival. The salesmen's smoker was an orgy. The smalltown boys had plenty of liquor on their breaths, carnival girls on their laps. A cooch dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...
...remarkable compendium of little-known facts and strange information, gathering up all stray notes about Witch history in England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the height of the delusion in the Seventeenth Century...
Last week there was an agitation in Boston for a burning. Not for witch burning was the urge, but for check burning. As everyone knows, Alvan Tufts Fuller, recently retired Governor of Massachusetts, never accepted any salary for his eight years of Governorship, Lieutenant-Governorship. Checks were given him totalling $56,000. He saved them as mementos, never cashed them. This he was able to do because he is a millionaire, owns the Packard Motor Car Co. of Boston...