Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four-five years was a long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah...
...mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise yourself; and despise being despised." A post-mortem showed that his heart had grown so great that it had displaced one of his ribs. Of Joan of Arc, Hagiographer Wescott says: "If she was not a witch, the church is guilty of having destroyed its rarest heroine as a political expedient: if she was, it is guilty of having canonized her for more amiable reasons of the same general sort." Of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: "One is inclined to think that almost all Christians now have taken them...
...Committee on the Publication of Honors Theses in English has decided to publish only one thesis this year: "The Witch of Wych Street," a study of the theatrical reforms of Madame Vestris, by Leo Waitzkin '33. The following theses have appeared in previous years: "Poetical Intoxication," by W. N. Bates '30; "Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries," by Derk Bodde '30; "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw," by Ayers Brinser '31; "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan," by Robert Peel '31; and "Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School," by W. W. Watt '32. Publication of honors theses is made possible...
...sits in Commons for the Scottish Universities, is a trustee of the National Library of Scotland. Best known of his rare bills in Commons was for greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known in the U. S. for his adventurous, Kiplingesque historical novels (Greenmantle, Witch Wood, The Blanket of the Dark, etc. etc.). British schoolboys read them and are given a Buchan history of the World War-sound, patriotic, safe stuff. For 25 years John Buchan has been an elder in a Scottish church in London. When informed of his appointment as Lord High Commissioner...
MOTHER SEA-Felix Riesenberg-Kendall ($2.50). Tale of a sea-captain in the late 1890's. Not to be confused or compared with The Sea Witch...