Word: witched
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...attitude of her more experienced fellow workers has probably been best expressed by Veteran Barrymore. After a short rehearsal one day with Actress O'Brien. 'Barrymore, a notorious scene grabber himself, was heard to mutter : "Two hundred years ago, they'd have burnt her as a witch...
...actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch, and one rainy day he grumbled to Mistress Higons: "It is 'long of the King that this weather is so troublous and unstable, and I wene that we shall never have better weather whiles the King reigneth, and therefore it makes no matter if he were knocked or patted...
...Bell, Book and Candle." Henry VIII stood firm by day, danced the night through with his witch. When the Pope cursed him "with bell, book and candle," and at last excommunicated him, Henry replied that "if the Pope issued ten thousand excommunications, he would not care a straw." Henry exulted because his new Queen was pregnant, and the best necromancers, astrologers and wizards all agreed that the portents indicated an heir to the throne. When, instead, a puling female appeared, Henry's fury was terrible. Was it for this insignificant Elizabeth that he had defied the Pope, divorced...
...long will the postwar boom last? The rosy estimates of three to five years have been based on one solid economic fact. During the war, U.S. consumers piled up $90 billion in savings, now hold $130 billion. This huge hoard, according to the economic witch-doctors, would be poured out-to fuel the boom. But last week, in a gloomy and significant report, the conservative U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics said...
...Farrell's new novel, he said: "I discovered at least two chapters which I consider indecent. There was nothing else I could do about it but slap on the ban. . . . We're not on a witch hunt. The fewer such decisions we have to make the better we like...