Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beaver Dam, Wis., a family of 40 had a reunion, celebrated by nibbling a 100-year-old egg brought from China which had mystic hieroglyphs on its shell...
...patriotic-imperialistic demonstrations switched to gay reunion of fellow officers as the wines ran rich and red and military bands started to play the half barbaric, half mystic Prussian Army marches. The crowds in the streets outside the hall waited up late to watch their old-time heroes depart. Among those not present, because of his present status as chief officer of the German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg...
...they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made for himself...
...haired, ruddy-cheeked Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain. He spoke his mind to the Assembly and the World as though he stood in some vast, sky-vaulted International House of Commons. Logical at first, he rose to the passionate climax of a messiah, spoke of "the mystic common tie of nationhoods," showed startlingly how transcendental is his Scotch Socialism...
...portrait of her mother (recently deceased). She appeared in rags, in bathing suits, in bed; as the innocent, the maiden betrayed, finally as the tempered lady who babbled of green fields as she died in New Rochelle at the tender age of 22. Her devoted master and mistress, mystic and delicate respectively, were ever clad in lounging robes. When the curtain rolled down for the 34th time the audience wondered what Veronica had been "getting even" with- it may have been the audience...