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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ferdinand is a royal mystic, supposed by superstitious Bulgarian peasants to possess occult powers. Presumably the Mystic Tsar had quarreled with his Black Cat, or someone's else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tsar v. Cat | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Book closes on the year 5688 Anno Mundi Friday evening Sept. 14. This time its mystic writings contain happy records: anti-Jewish riots suppressed in Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Russia; Jewish students permitted education practically everywhere; farm colonization in Russia; the economic depression in Palestine overcome; Zionists at last agreeing; Jews and Christians holding love feasts in England and the U. S.; proselytizing of U. S. Jews discouraged; Jewish education aggressively pushed throughout the U. S.; a non-religious renaissance of Hebrew culture everywhere. Jews have become exuberant and expansive in the happy circumstance of tolerance. Their chief fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Jewish Days | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Faith. Venerable Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, scientist and spiritualist, preached a Sunday rhapsody. Dressed in his academic robes, a bible in his hands, his white beard faintly moving like a mystic voice, he cried his faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

President (rising and turning disgustedly away) Ghrh!! A Roman Catholic, a mystic ! Useless to question the type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...WITHERED ROOT-Rhys Davies-Holt ($2.50). "You Welsh! A race of mystical poets who have gone awry in some way." But this judgment by a cynical agnostic had no dampening effect on Reuben's religious fervor. Born of a stoic collier and a bibacious mother who starved the boy for affection, he was a child of curious, conflicting emotion. Gleefully he chopped up frogs and roasted mice alive; demurely he followed his father to church, and gradually religion won out-he was hypnotized, obsessed. Evenings, he pored over the Bible, sweated to convert his friend the agnostic. And evenings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystic Joy | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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