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...Semi-fabulous white whale whose demoniac history was recorded by Herman Melville (1819-91). Last week. Author Melville's home, viewing Mt. Greylock in the Berkshire Mountains near Pittsfield, Mass., was reported to be for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Whale Spotting | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...smoking pogrom of Kravno, her flesh-guilt cried out at her again as the demoniac moujik smashed a Jewish child on the wall before her face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...effectively, led at 6-4, 7-5, then dawdled, flapped his serve like a chef turning a meatball, made clownish errors so that Kinsey won the third and fourth sets, 6-2, 6-3. In the fifth set, with Kinsey leading at 5-2 and the gallery becoming demoniac, he decided that his moment had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...gold stallion changed these women-the mother a little, the daughter much. Lou saw him in the mews where their own mounts were kept a horse of enormous power with dark, invisible flame coming out of him. In his wild jet eyes gleamed demoniac visions of an untamed animal time when there were no human lies about goodness, love, perfection, ideals. He was a celibate stallion and a mankiller. Lou found him a terrible deity who gazed questioning, threatening, untouchable out of another world, with ears like daggers on his naked head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Primal* | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...Demoniac visions in wild jet eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 29, 1925 | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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