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...last we reached the base of the cone and there we found bubbles in the lava underfoot that steamed and hissed like a witch's cauldron. Our own guide said nothing would induce him to go any farther, but another came along with an English officer who said he would take us on. First he wanted to make a volcano of his own. Taking an iron rod, he pierced the hot shell of a cauldron, showing us molten red inside with fiery stalactites dripping from the top. Here was Dante's Inferno in miniature. There was some thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cook's Tour | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Another variation from stage directions was the dance of the witch doctor in the final scene. Rather than Mrs. Ingram's unorthodox rendition; it should have been slow and ceremonial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

...Witch: Male synonym for favorite girl (e.g., "She's my witch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jabberwocky | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Regarding Prime Minister Churchill's warning to the Allied peoples (TIME, July 12), he might have quoted a fellow countryman as well as St. Paul. Remarked Boss Witch Hecate in Shakespeare's Macbeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Military Millinery. In Darkest Africa, the trend in witch-doctor millinery was to the modern warfare motif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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