Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today, David!" In 1900 Carrie Nation, began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord!" At length, convinced of her "mission," she set out to crusade against the Demon Rum. Then began her saloon-smashing career. Almost six feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, she would stride through the swinging doors of Kansas saloons* smash windows, mirrors, bottles, glasses; upbraid bartenders and patrons. In a Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that...
Spellbound, on special matinees, expounds the curse of cursing drink. It holds up the horrible example of a mother so intent upon defeating Demon Rum that she flushes her two little sons with anti-whiskey solutions. The result: one becomes a mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play...
...Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...
...Boobson--Your honor, the man is a demon. He has seduced the wife of a man of property who in pure honest self defense...
Last month in Aiken, S. C., a band of the new gentry lynched three Negroes, Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister Bertha, with a refinement of tactics (TIME, Oct. 18). They hauled their prey out of jail one night, took them out of town, told them to run, shot them in the face and chest as they turned to look. In 200 parked cars the gentry stepped on their starters, satisfied...