Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Hubert Wilkins and his 18 men in the 24-year-old submarine Nautilus?surface cruising the North Atlantic to England last week, en route to the North Pole?went radiograms as foreboding as the witch cries that menaced Macbeth...
...handsomely bound volume containing the verses and pencil sketches of various Harvard professors which have appeared from time to time in the Lampoon under the title of "Drippings from a Witch's Quill" will be on sale next week at Harvard Square bookstores and at the Lampoon Building, it was announced last night. The collection, edited by T. G. Upton '31, C. E. Pickhardt '31, and Paul Brooks '31, is now in the hands of the printers, who are hastening its issual in time for the return of graduates to the annual commencement exercises...
...issue of Feb. 23, p. 36, you refer to a forthcoming opera called Merry Mount. Mention is made of a witch-burning episode. The producers are able to make their characters do anything, I suppose, but, as far as I know, there have never been witch-burnings in this country. The idea of this form of execution probably received a great impetus from H. L. Mencken- he refers many times throughout his rather muscular prose to such affairs. As a matter of fact the form of execution was usually by hanging. If there is a case on record where...
There is no record of colonial witch-burning in the U. S. Even in the Massachusetts witch hysteria of 1692, of the 19 put to death, 18 were hanged, one was pressed to death, none were burned...
...sheer vituperation and ridicule Judge Lyle could hold his own against Mayor Thompson. Excerpt: "Chicago is a great and growing city. But what has Bill the Bluffer had to do with it? Like an African witch doctor he looks about, sees Chicago's skyscrapers, waves his arms and says, 'I did it all!' . . . An Eskimo at the North Pole might as well have been mayor ; while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever...