Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immense majority of U. S. citizens, alcohol denotes either that which is shudderingly referred to as Demon Rum or affectionately described as John Barleycorn. Yet, despite the tremendous amount of advertising which alcohol as a beverage has immemorially received, its use for industrial (i. e., non-beverage) purposes has been and remains one of its vitally important functions. True, last week's formation of General Industrial Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League...
...sure, we have not seen anyone donating a number of nice new houses to fill up the quadrangle for us, but neither have we heard anyone announce in stenorous tones that any dastardly demon who attempted it would be unanimously boycotted...
...critic and exponent of advertising.* Under the title: "Lucky Strikes Save Florida's Crew," Mr. Calkins deplored the fact that Hero George Fried had hardly docked before he was endorsing Lucky Strikes via radio and newspapers. It is Mr. Calkins' agency that has created the famed Fire Demon in the Hartford Fire Insurance advertisements; to the testimonial demon Mr. Calkins is equally antagonistic...
...Senate and the U. S. public did not become thoroughly aware of him until 1914, when President Wilson appointed him a member of the first Federal Reserve Board. A Senate Committee on Banking and Currency questioned Mr. Warburg, their inquiries colored somewhat by a distorted idea of the Money Demon and Mr. Warburg as an incarnation of it. At that time a Kuhn-Loeb member, and with an income of some half a million a year, Mr. Warburg devoted himself to building up the Federal Reserve system. For four years (1914-1918) he served on the Federal Reserve Board...
...learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings of a pirate...