Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith '45, right guard, was on the Freshman team last year and moved right up to the Varsity. A demon on defense, the Georgia boy still needs a little more speed and finesse in pulling out of the line...
...Hitler made a contract with the demon of the air, but the contract ran out before the job was done and the demon has taken on an engagement with a rival firm...
Dazed peasants in County Limerick, staring up this week from their fields, may have thought the Old Boy himself was whipping those demon horses and riding that painted coach down the road to Rathkeale. But it was the Irish Stagecoach, a spanking four-in-hand, with liveried coachman and guards, sounding an ancient English horn in the good Irish air. Revived by Viscount Adare, perhaps as a publicity gag for wife Nancy's holiday inn at Adare,† the stagecoach carries 25 passengers, will make three de luxe trips each week...
...hammiest scenes and lines have been left intact, and are played straight. The barkeeper and the gambler leer, sneer, entrap their victims. Joe the drunkard wrestles in agony with the demon rum; his little daughter quavers Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, and later dies; Joe remorsefully swears off liquor with the old gag, "I'll never drop another drink-I mean drink another drop." The gambler stabs the squire's son, and the barkeeper's son slugs his old man to death with a gin bottle...
...besoin d'aimer took the form of Marianna Segati, wife of Byron's landlord, who ran a draper's shop at the sign of Il Corno (the horn), soon changed by his apprentices into II Corno Inglese (horns by Byron). Marianna has been described as a "demon of avarice and libidinousness." But Byron found that her hair had "the curl and colour of Lady Jersey...