Word: demonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defensively, where the rinksters really shine, Captain Johnny Paine and Dick Mechem have their posts sewed up as tightly as a new priority girdle. Goodie Harding, a demon in the cage, will don the pads this afternoon...
...YOUR PICTURE OF GROTESQUELY PAINTED "DEMON MASKS" (TIME, NOV. 9) NEGLECTED TO SAY THAT IT WAS TAKEN AT THE TEXAS PLANT OF NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION. AS ONE OF ITS WORKERS I KNOW THAT NORTH AMERICAN IS LIVING UP TO ITS MOTTO "TO KEEP 'EM FLYING GET 'EM BUILT...
...bench last week. If he recuperated enough, he may try to pull the same trick on the Crimson which Savage pulled on the Crusaders last week. Bruce Remick, another fast runner, fills out the lineup of the regular Brown backfield. Jay Pattee, a blocking back of note, is a demon at kicking points after touchdown...
Next sensation broke in Paris. In 1909 Epstein was commissioned to carve a figure for Oscar Wilde's tomb. He purchased a 20-ton block of stone, spent nine months in London carving "a demon-angel, in full flight across the face of the world," transported the work to Paris. The French were even more shocked than the English. Says Author Black: "This simplified and symbolic statue was violently objected to because it possessed genitals." To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with...
...before the District of Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...