Word: demonism
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Assignment-Paris (Columbia) is set in that never-never newspaper office usually imagined by the movies. The highly colorful personalities include a suave editor (George Sanders) who is infatuated with demon Girl Reporter Marta Toren. She, in turn, is in love with intrepid Newsman Dana Andrews, who is described as "a one-man newspaper." For good measure, there is also a stylish fashion editor (Audrey Totter) who is an old flame of Sanders', now making eyes at Andrews...
Like their country cousins at Dartmouth, Davidson men must rely on an abundance of spirit to tide them over the womanless days before each weekend. But unlike Dartmouth, Davidson generates its spirit from within, without any aid from Demon Rum, for the college rules state that "any student found guilty of drinking alcoholic liquors, having them in his possession, or being under their influence on the campus, is dismissed...
...course of the year 1631, in the little French town of Loudun, an entire convent of Ursuline nuns went insane, or rather, to use the analytical term of that day, they were possessed by devils. And since the chiefest of these was a demon of desire for the parish priest-a dashing esthete adored by the women of the town and detested by their husbands-it was indisputably evident to the man's enemies that he was a wizard, and that something had to be done about...
Appointing a confessor who was a sworn enemy of Grandier, Sister Jeanne began to confide to him her symptoms of a demonic infestation that clearly indicated Grandier as the infester. Soon 16 other nuns, under the vivid suggestion of their prioress' example, found themselves with demon: here Leviathan in the center of a forehead; there, Enemy of the Virgin in the neck; Asmodeus (in Hebraic lore, king of the demons) snuggled in a groin; Concupiscence at home in the left...
...blast of newspaper ads last week, Westinghouse Electric Corp. boasted it had "the world's most powerful jet engine qualified for production." The new model of its J40 turbojet, said Westinghouse, produces "more than 25,000 h.p. at flight speeds," will go into the Navy's McDonnell Demon and Douglas Skyray fighters...