Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose right to her brother's fortune by terms of a will drawn nine years before his marriage has been challenged by Colonel Green's widow, redheaded Mabel E. Harlow Green, 66. Dressed completely in black as was the habit of her mother, Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street." rich old Mrs. Wilks sparred verbally with solemn-faced Lawyer Isaac A. Pennypacker, who questioned her on behalf of Widow Green. Ignoring the scales of justice separated by a sword of "Truth" encrusted on the ceiling, alert old Mrs. Wilks said just what she wanted...
...legged, pleasure-loving Edward Rowland Robinson Green died at the Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting...
Alexander Laing (The Sea Witch) ran across the reminiscences of John Nicol in the Boston Public Library while doing research for an historical romance. Thinking only his inexperience had made him unaware of the book, he was surprised to find that it was almost unknown, the only reprint badly bowdlerized and the original issue, published in 1822, unnoticed at the time it appeared. The Life and Adventures of John Nicol is one of the first autobiographies of the sea written from the point of view of a common sailor. A brief, well-written book, beautifully Dound and illustrated...
...observed to "change herself into a horse and walk on her hind legs," and that she had also caused "horns to appear on her head." The New York Post, too, printed a special dispatch from Woodbridge. The Postman heard a woman say that one night she had seen the witch "dressed in the skin of an animal, with a stream of fire over her head." The New York Sun reported Mrs. Czinkota's neighbors believed her to have mixed magic brews while mysterious balls of fire had shot from her head. According to the Sun, Mrs. Czinkota was seen...
...AFRICAN WITCH-Joyce Gary- Morrow ($2.50). Long, semirealistic novel laid in British West Africa, revolving around the defeat of a handsome, English-educated native chieftain in his attempts to improve the lot of his people. Witchcraft, riots of native women, the governing methods of the British, a decapitation, the inept assistance of a sentimental English lady, contribute to his failure...