Word: demoniacal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with violence but without bad temper. Consequently his forceful delineations of character carry weight even when they are brutally offensive. Jo Boshere will leave few readers without some fellow-feeling. Hecht's dialog is nearer real life than most authors dare go. Ben Hecht was a small, dark, demoniac member of the Chicago literary circle that gave the U. S. such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg. Big-eyed, thick-lipped, baldish, he looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash-hit The Front Page; with...
Enthusiastic if undistinguished drawings caricatured Donor Harkness on the back stoop eagerly picking up the News and the morning milk to see how his program was being received; shadowy, demoniac, pedagogs were pictured pouring down a horrid sworl of dicta and mandates upon a helpless undergraduate; the Corporation (board of Trustees) was seen servilely waiting upon the Harkness pleasure...