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Father Swann's son Isaiah, brought up with the other children of the commune, came back from Yale with misgivings about the Other Plane. He wanted to marry Dinah, the pretty, credulous ward of the Temple. Father Swann told him he had better wait. Meanwhile, Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil...
...Benjamin Franklin and the Association of Electricizers, the children were quarreling and no one in the Temple was working. The Machine was a complicated tangle of magnets, coils and rods. "Good 'Lantic Ocean," ejaculated the neighbors, "what a contraption!" James Prince's notion was to have Dinah, the Temple's purest virgin, conceive immaculately a spiritual impulse to set the Machine working. After nine months of elaborate preparation Dinah, mesmerized on a bench beside the Machine, went through the agonies of birth...
...Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan) 3; recordings, made by the Rothschild Quartet-one of whom drops out in each series-which include selections from Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert. For students of swing, British Decca Records of London has made 14 records of rhythm accompaniment to such standard hot pieces as Dinah, St. Louis Blues, Tiger Rag, Dardanella. U. S. Decca Records plans to place them on sale in the U. S. within two months...
...meet the issues of an entirely different order of life." Hence the rise of corporation lawyers, the warping of the 14th Amendment's "due process" clause from its intended protection of Negroes to its actual protection of corporations. "It had accomplished nothing for its expected beneficiaries, Rastus and Dinah, but might hold concealed blessings for transcontinental railroads and Standard Oil companies." Hence the growth in importance of the Supreme Court...
...calculating, clever, unscrupulous, ugly; Yakob openhanded, strong, a great favorite first with the girls and then with the heiresses who started him on his way to fortune. Because Max was considered one of the cleverest boys in the city he was selected as the bridegroom for lively, warm-hearted Dinah, daughter of a small manufacturer. But she loved Yakob who was attracted to her. In half-primitive, backward Lodz, periodically split by savage strikes of the Jewish and German weavers, by pogroms that were encouraged by the Tsarist police, the two brothers soon became business rivals. Max coldly divorced Dinah...