Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take one." Mother was also "an enthusiastic advocate" of big families. Author Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...
...himself has been one of the first to grant the colored musician equal opportunity to star in the big time. Ever since Teddy Wilson joined him in 1935 he has had one or more Negroes occupying important places in his organization. Wilson and Lionel Hampton, the versatile vibraphonist and demon of the two-fingered piano, both gained so much publicity that they have now broken off and launched their own bands. And now Charlie Christians and Cootie Williams, two other colored virtuosi, are performing with Goodman's sextet...
Evangelist Sam Morris, the "Voice of Temperance," radio prohibitionist. His strongest card: a letter written by Morris Sheppard before his death, praising Sam Morris' fight against the Demon...
...climax of a life devoted to battling Demon Rum, he introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...
...from the squabbling days of the Articles of Confederation to the peace and growth that came after the Constitution was adopted. How had it come about? Working forward from the Constitutional Convention, and backward from the failure of the League of Nations, Clarence Streit found the demon: national sovereignty. So long as nations dealt with each other as government-to-government, he decided, no league of sovereign states, no system of pacts or alliances between sovereign states, would work. But when the people of the different governments were united in a Federal Union, with the states retaining their rights...