Word: zuleika
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Max Beerbohm wrote Zuleika Dobson, his farcical satire on Oxford (1911), he included in that gallery of light-hearted caricatures a character who still stands as the type - at least to English eyes - of the U. S. Rhodes Scholar. Abimelech V. Oover, like his brothers, was an admirable and good-hearted fellow, but there was something about him the English found oppressive. "Altogether, the American Rhodes Scholars, with their splendid gift of oratory, and their modest desire to please, and their not less evident feeling that they ought merely to edify . . . and their constant fear that they are being...
Fanatics. Eighteen disciples of Major Divine, Negro religious cultist whom disciples call "God," could not cease their ecstasy after his New York City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...