Word: beelzebub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stopgap chancellor, however, he should do very well since he is a Roman Catholic and enjoys the support of the largest faction in the republic, the reactionary, Catholic "Christian Socialists" who abhor the late Karl Marx (see p. 53) as though he were Beelzebub...
...that he is a student in Amherst College and happens to be a son of the President of the United States. And yet we read that he has arrived in Amherst for his senior year 'accompanied by a young secret-service man.' In the name of Beelzebub, why? We heard first of this secret-service man last year and hoped by now that he had been returned to some legitimate work- or is there such an army of these men that no legitimate work can be found for them all? We can't think of a shadow...
Last week Fuzzy Wuzzy (Osman Digna, called "The Ugly") died in Wadi Haifa, Egypt. He was 90. He had spent 22 years in prison, more than 20 years slave trading, some 25 years fighting. His father was a Scottish sailor or Beelzebub. Perhaps he had an Arab mother, or perhaps his mother was a Turk. Nobody is sure. History recognizes only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown...
...therefore let us punish Asa the Scribe and make him confess before all Harvard; and Belcher the Ruler, surnamed Bowl, alias Beelzebub, said, let him also be placed below his Fellows, and they agreed to that also...
...also that Beelzebub...