Word: witched
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...contained in any given dozen of theatres. Storms and shots and beaten drums fill in the open spaces when an Englishman's soul is not departing with appropriate agonies. James Rennie and Ruth Shepley draw salaries for interpreting these noisy doings. Probably the best performance is that of the witch doctor, Francis Corbie, a Negro actor...
Operagoers, meanwhile, rehearsed in their memories the mythology upon which Herr Wagner built his cycle?his grim gods warring upon each other, loving, reveling, cursing; his goblins, heroes, witch-women...
Grim gods, goblins, heroes, witch-women...
...portrait of Lady Sassoon-an arrogant, amazingly refined countenance portrayed with the delicate distinction characteristic of aristocracy and Sargent at their best. There, too, was one of Mr. Sargent's famed Werthheimer portraits. There was Munning's picture of the Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught. There were two Hogarths from The Rake's Progress series, two portraits by Reynolds, a romantic landscape by Gainsborough, a liberal representation of other 18th Century painters...
...poured a bottle or so of brandy and trie lamps were turned out while a responsible uncle put a match to it-and the fun, the rather terrifying fun, began! The leaping thin flames, blue and yellow like wild pansies, turned the laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like...