Word: demoniacal
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...locks. Even solitary walks were forbidden. Yet there "one met for the first time characters, adult and adolescent, who bore about them the genuine quality of evil. There was Collifax, who practiced torments with dividers; Mr. Cranden with three grim chins, a dusty gown, a kind of demoniac sensuality; from these heights evil declined toward Parlow, whose desk was filled with minute photographs-advertisements of art photos. Hell lay about them in their infancy...
Died. Thomas Alan Goldsborough, 73, longtime (1921-39) Maryland Congressman, since 1939 a federal judge, who twice (in 1946 and 1948) fined John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for breaking antistrike injunctions ("a threat to democratic government . . . evil, demoniac, monstrous"); of a heart attack while celebrating his 42nd wedding anniversary; in Washington...
...moves slowly at first, as the authors establish the situation and character relationships. After the first act, it picks up a good deal of speed and dramatic power. The same is true of the acting. Ralph Clanton is convincing, often frighteningly so, as the Earl, a man of almost demoniac evil. Martha Scott and Charlton Heston give rounded, creditable performances as Margaret and John Clitherow. Miss Scott's portrayal of the heroine is not inspiring, but she does an extremely competent job in a part that calls for straightforward acting...
...Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, driving off in a staff car during the Italian campaign, and giving the camera a jolly-good-fellow grin. But at that instant the sun strikes the gold knob of his baton, and flashes across his features a demoniac glitter...
Last week the Trois-Rivières Junior Chamber of Commerce denounced the ban on mixed bathing. Le Nouvelliste, ardent supporter of the church, assailed "the thoughtlessness of demoniac youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied to the bishop, ignored the fact that when the Archbishop of Quebec, Monsignor Maurice Roy, was Bishop of Trois-Rivières, he held that mixed bathing was none of the church's business...