Word: demoniacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild-voiced Goldsborough called that strike "an evil, demoniac, monstrous thing." He said it meant "hunger and cold, and unemployed and democratic government itself, and "If actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the government will be overthrown, and the government that would take its place would be a dictatorship...
Hollywood is her element. The vibrations are right. The rarefied atmosphere exhilarates instead of suffocating her. She is possessed not only of Dionysiac energy but also of an all but demoniac appetite for expending it. All of each day, from 9 to 7, she pours this boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant...
...Demoniac Saint. Antonio Conselheiro believed that the Roman Catholic Church was doing the will of Satan. His morality combined the absolute license of free love with chastity exaggerated "to the point where woman is looked upon with horror"- his followers accepted half of this, and practiced free love. Because his disciples renovated abandoned cemeteries, built new churches and restored old ones, the priests "good-naturedly tolerated the excesses of this demoniac saint who at least helped to increase their dwindled revenues." By 1877 Conselheiro was famous, feared, implacable, "a species of great man gone wrong," ascetic, thin, weary-looking, half...
...Rochester is not meant to be amusing. For Cinemactor Welles to play Rochester as a man of ham, not of heart, wrenches the whole mood of Jane Eyre. But in the opening reels, little Peggy Ann Garner (as the child Jane), brilliantly abetted by Henry Daniell (as a demoniac preacher-schoolmaster), and by some loud-pedaled cinemaginativeness, establishes a nightmarish chiaroscuro of pity and gloom which, if sustained, might have made Jane Eyre a great picture...
...assorted pipe addicts (the caption, in the mouths of two elderly ladies, is "Bother-it's a smoker!"). An Emett dining car, where rabbit is being served, affords, by virtue of a sharp curve in the track, a view of the train's last car where the demoniac chef is in the act of snatching the bunnies alive from the very roadside. Emett's crazily antiquated rolling stock often shows the most charmingly ornamental cabinet work, and for anyone who has ever felt the obsessive fascination of pastoral narrow-gauge lines, with grass and weeds between...