Word: beelzebubs
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Though Peale worked himself to the point of exhaustion, served on countless political committees, worried about his growing family, he rose enthusiastically to important occasions. When news of Benedict Arnold's treachery arrived, Peale created a two-faced effigy of the traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis...
Even ubiquitous TIME has no bureau in Dante's inferno-but is not Beelzebub your stringer? Only supernatural news sources could have supplied Mr. Attlee's comments he did not make about a place he did not visit ["Different people had different tastes, but it did seem rather...
...sign of the times when an alumnus of this College, be he David Schine or Beelzebub, is so muck-raked in the CRIMSON as to his private life and habits while at College. For the author of the article to go around questioning Schine's tradesmen, janitors, roommates and even his Radcliffe girl-friends, is to show that he is training himself for work not unlike the public life of Mr. Schine himself...
...vehemence, criticism of Wagner has seldom surpassed that of the German historian, J. L. Klein, who wrote in 1871 of "the diabolical din of this pigheaded man, stuffed with brass and sawdust, inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles' mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub's Court Composer and General Director of Hell's Music-Wagner...
...Book's first rule is: "There is no law beyond Do What Thou Wilt"-and this Crowley proceeded to do. One of his first acts of freedom was to set "Beelzebub and his 49 servitors" after the leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Another was his baking of sacred "Cakes of Light ... to breed lust" in all who ate them. To this period, too, belongs the slim volume of pornographic poems entitled Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden...