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...said that "we oppose any attempt of communist or fascist forces to infiltrate AVC and divert it from its liberal goals. We propose no purges. We are merely spelling out what is implicit in AVC's program: that no communist or fascist can honestly join AVC. The cry of 'witch-hunt' is an attempt at political blackmail to confuse the issue...
...national flower of Bolivia is the kantuta, bell-shaped and scarlet. The Incas said the flower first blossomed from the blood dropped by a Virgin of the Sun God, beloved by a prince and slain by the trick of a jealous witch. Spring came cold and dark to lofty Bolivia, but nobody recalled more beautiful kantutas. It was, Bolivians said, as if all the blood shed this year were reappearing as flowers...
...Society became synonymous with its executive secretaries, two of whom, J. Frank Chase and the Reverend Bodwell, now rank with the witch burners in local repute. Of impeccable upbringing, both men were of the cloth, and had not the slightest idea of the whys and wheres of Sin--merely reiterating with regularity to the courts and to available Sunday afternoon societies that it was wrong and was to be rooted out of Boston. Bodwell was an intellectual pugilist who was ready to go anywhere to supervise personally the humiliation of those who strayed, and was also ready to take...
...Witch Margarita: Thrice; and once the Holy Cross it scratched...
...Witch Jacunski: Harvard cries,--'Tis time, 'tis time...