Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of Hindus marched through the streets dragging hideous effigies labeled DEMON LIQUOR. At strategic corners, city officials stepped forward to set fire to the images. Last week Madras Province was celebrating Gandhi's birthday (it would have been his 79th) by going...
...Roman Catholics of Vancouver Archdiocese know their Archbishop William Duke as an unyielding foe of Sunday picnics, parish hall dances, demon rum and Marxism. They call him "The Iron Duke...
Like all harness horses, Demon Hanover had to learn not to break into a gallop or canter, a process known as teaching a trotter "good manners." The Demon caught on beautifully. Last season, mostly on half-mile tracks, Demon Hanover won twelve races in 14 starts. Last week, Hoyt felt so certain of his chances in the big race that he closed up his Danbury hat factory...
Most of his 85 employees turned out at Goshen, N.Y. to pull for the boss: he had promised them their day's pay if he won. There wasn't much doubt about the first heat. Demon Hanover stepped along in front easy as could be, with the boss, in his goggles and cap, driving like a professional. Demon Hanover won the heat without straining. His time: 2:03 1/5. If he could repeat in the second heat, there would be no necessity for a third. In the second, Demon Hanover trotted even better (2:02), won the Hambletonian...
Hoyt had already turned down $75,000 for his $2,600 buy. Now that he had won the Hambletonian, he might accept the offer, if repeated. And his 85 employees expected soon to be turning out a new hat called Demon Hanover...