Word: creator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrify the countryside, break out of a dungeon, and make friends with a blind hermit who teaches him to smoke cigars and speak. Meanwhile one Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), as convincingly lunatic a scientist as ever reached the screen, shows Baron Henry Frankenstein, the monster's creator, the Tom-Thumb King, Queen, Archbishop and Satan he has cultured from human seed until they can chatter and gesticulate in test-tube prisons in his Mephistophelian laboratory. Pretorius forces the Baron to collaborate on a woman-monster by having the Baron's bride (Valerie Hobson) kidnapped until he consents. There...
Erskine Caldwell is one of those neurasthenic egomaniacs in the infliction of which upon mankind the Creator seems to have been guilty of unnecessary harshness to an erring world...
...says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there forgotten until 1823, when it was discovered and translated. But so firmly fixed...
...pleasant to walk airily up Holyoke Street these brisk spring mornings, once again convinced that the world is essentially round, and its Creator in His appointed place. Humming a measure or two from Mendelssohn, one crosses Mt. Auburn Street, headed Yard-wards. But as one's gaze falls on the new University Parking Place, the smile of joy is likely to vanish from one's face...
Readers of mass circulation magazines have long known Illustrator Everett Shinn as the creator of slinky voluptuous ladies with incredibly long legs and arms. But it was as Artist Everett Shinn that he gave at Manhattan's Morton Galleries last week the first exhibition in four years of his serious painting, reminded critics of his worthy background. There was on view a little something for everybody. Unquestionably first-rate were Artist Shinn's early Paris street scenes and New York views in the same manner, to which he has recently reverted. One canvas, worthy of Toulouse-Laut