Word: demoniacal
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Curious things happen to wings in certain positions, owing to such demoniac conflicts as those of suction on the upper surfaces and pressure on the lower. The adjustment must be delicate or nose-dives and involuntary tailspins result. Slotted areas in the wing, allowing air to pass through, seem to have a kindly, stabilizing effect. Thus aviation's newest safety device is called the wing slot. Technical journals still use "probably" and "theoretically" in referring...
...stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht, causes her fiance to appear in his true colors and marries her with affectionate alacrity in the last...
...greatest Jew of modern times"- was recognized by many admiring people throughout the world (TiME, Mar. 7). Your tribute to the memory of this great, good man was to publish an article under the head EDUCATION, in which you pictured an attic recluse spending his leisure hours in demoniac glee watching spiders fight. The article reminds us of President Coolidge's Washington's Birthday address in which our worthy President took little cognizance of the truly great things that our First President embodied, and centred his attention on the incidental fact that Washington was a good businessman...
...CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives...
...running a curiosity shop called Soul Light Shrine. "Another of those crazy Village clubs," said passersby. But in one of these clubs of late, George Kellman, owner of the New Art Gallery, saw suddenly before his face a canvas showing four horsemen outriding a blizzard. It had color, light, demoniac motion. It was by World-Citizen Clivette. Mr Kellman bought it and others-cascades that thundered, tigers that snarled. Then he opened his up town show...