Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight, Bishop Herrera himself gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...
...came to me in tears. 'I was unable to save the soul of that poor creature,' she told me. The sister was wrong. In this woman's death cry there lay only the dramatic and profound aspiration of all Spain's poor for better laws of social justice. She had been taught by false and cunning prophets that happiness would be brought by Russia. The error is not hers-it is ours. It is ours because we are turning away from the poor and from the social teaching of the gospel ... It is our duty...
...entire Seoul detective force was assigned to dig into the Red underground for the criminals. The most favored theories: that it was revenge for the recent expulsion of suspected Communists from Chosen Christian College; that the Communists had mistaken Mrs. Underwood for her guest of honor, a Korean woman noted for her pro-United Nations activities. One high U.S. official thought he had the answer: "If the Communists are looking for a way to make Americans distrust and dislike Koreans, they could find no better one than to kill this good American woman...
...mules' hind legs, cholera, poisoned water. Fear, worry, loneliness and monotony took a toll, too. A man suddenly began to run in circles, declaring that Providence had decreed that he was to be buried in that circle (he was soundly trussed up and placed in a wagon). A woman suddenly began to set fire to anything that would burn. Halfway from the Missouri to the goldfields, the number of abandoned wagons increased noticeably. Some of the outfits began to shoot their dogs -the barking caused too many of the travelers' cattle to stampede. But the caravans kept coming...
...trouble might be her placid style. She decided to take a completely new course. She picked herself the pseudonym of Isabel Bolton and, in 1946, published a novel in a new, free style, Do I Wake or Sleep. It consisted pretty much of the interior monologues of a woman of intuitions, like Isabel Bolton. This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana Trilling: "The most important...