Word: beasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee had nothing whatsoever to do with The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin. It was produced by a private company, and I disapproved of it absolutely as a vicious appeal to hate...
...picture agency which supplied a miscaptioned actress, a sharp rebuke. Herewith the real Blanche Bates (who never wore tights) as she appeared in 1901 in Under Two Flags. A private company produced The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, though the CPI (which effectively suppressed other movies) let it pass without comment. TIME stated that Creel "deplored the national hysteria which his Committee had so successfully fostered." In general, as Authors Mock & Larson amply showed, George Creel's CPI occupied the position of bellwether of the propaganda herd...
...Hitler, the Nazis and the Germans, written as his final report to Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax. Perceptive, witty and compassionate as a Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful but pitiable man. Sir Nevile had further broken precedent by writing the best of his memoirs 30 days, instead of 30 years, after the events happened. Excerpts...
...beast did not remain so solemnly buried. The unfortunate lion's body, completely denuded of hair and bloated to grotesque proportions, was washed up several days later opposite the coast guard radio station at Bethany Beach, Delaware...
...well absorbed by most U. S. citizens-the younger generation, it has been said, never quite recovered. Not easily forgotten were the Creel Committee's Halt the Hun posters, with their spidery villains; its movies, with riotous queues fighting to see that gory thriller, The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin; its 75,000 spellbinding Four-Minute Men; its Red, White and Blue pamphlets, in which famed history professors rewrote German history; its National School Service (circulation: 20,000,000 homes); its syndicated news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories by such writers as Mary Roberts...