Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story. Zamiel, the wild huntsman, a blackhearted, fire-eating demon, has in his power Kaspar, a forester in the service of Prince Ottokar of Bohemia. Kaspar is doomed to forfeit his soul to the wizard unless he can find another victim. As a candidate he picks the noble young hero, Max, who loves Agatha, daughter of the Prince's chief ranger, one Kuno. In the shooting contest which is to 'decide who is to be Kuno's successor, Kaspar, through Zamiel's magic, makes Max miss the target. Max despairs (very tunefully...
Sabine Baring-Gould was within 26 days of 90 last week when he died in Devonshire. Of all writers he was the most fecund. His 147 works include novels, lives of the saints in 15 volumes, fairytales, autobiography (A Demon Churchman) and, above all, hymns. Two hymns universal in the Protestant world are his, viz.: Now the Day is Over and Onward, Christian Soldiers...
Similarly Mr. Swinnerton, while showing no cowardice in the face of the demon, Sex, keeps a healthy sense of proportion in regard...
...Derek A. Shepper-son, 26, Royal Flying Corps veteran (son of Claude Shepperson, R. A., Punch artist), who lately advertised Lucky Strike cigarettes by writing their name in smoke against the sky, at Blackwood Field, near Nashville, Tenn. His plane collided with a tree as he landed after a demon-station of skywriting...
...soothingly on the grease, mud and avert the skid demon...