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Word: beasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After eight months she filed for divorce, but changed her mind. Admitted Brown: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet and the mon ey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots . . . pushed her in the swimming pool . . . turned the fire hose on her friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst v. Brown | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Then came the ferocious, just lamented mascot and last in line is today's regal beast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Handsome Dan Makes Debut In Today's Contest | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

...repelled and nauseated ... by such horrors as: The Great Beast, by J. Symonds; The Illusionist, F. Mallet; The Skin, C. Malaparte. Please, please let the mud remain where it belongs. Don't even mention them in your fine periodical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

Your review of John Symonds' The Great Beast was beastly . . . Aleister Crowley was an accomplished poet, a mountain climber of some ability, and an oddity whose biography should engage the attention of anyone interested in the vagaries of the human race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...last years, he was a shadow of a man, half-crazy and exhausted by drugs and debauchery, and his wickedness had degenerated into absurdity. But he still had a few followers. He was cremated at Brighton. Over his beflowered coffin a disciple loudly chanted The Beast's erotic Hymn to Pan. The chairman of Brighton's crematorium committee was not impressed by the innovation. Said he, perhaps unconsciously voicing the thoughts of a generation of Englishmen: "We shall take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedest Man in the World | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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