Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GREAT BEAST (316 pp.)-John Symonds...
...parents had lived their own lives as active Christian laymen, and done their best to make him follow their example. They had given him the baptismal name of Edward Alexander, but he preferred others. Perhaps his favorite name for himself (adopted from the book of Revelation) was "The Beast whose number is 666." When he died, at 72, he was popularly known as "The Worst Man in Britain" and "The Wickedest Man in the World." His literary executor, John Symonds, has now written a sympathetic biography...
...Pretend fans. In some families, three generations listen to the familiar, often-repeated stories enacted by Nila's casts,' largely juvenile. Cinderella, the favorite, has been given 22 times in as many years. Runners-up are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and the Beast and what Nila persists in calling-in near-blasphemous defiance of Walt Disney and the brothers Grimm-Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs...
...After years of listening to a tuneless whistling sound his wife made whenever she wished to taunt him, Emile Scheermaeker. a 52-year-old Woonsocket. R.I. machinist, could stand no more. Raging like a wild beast, he smashed her head with a clawhammer, ran the bathtub full of water, and held her under until he was sure that she was dead...
...point. Griffiths was driving the lion around in his car. its front paws on the front seat, hind legs on the back seat and head out the window. When blase Californians refused to look twice at what they thought was a stuffed lion, Griffiths nonchalantly poked the beast, elicited a pained roar and horrified attention from passersby...