Word: demonism
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...Forster's tales trip the fantastic lightly, full of comic improbabilities which unite past & present, heaven & earth. They abound with pompous Englishmen on Italian holidays, Anglican curates who sport with pagan fauns, young ladies with good breeding and bad taste. But beneath their staid respectability lurks the irreverent demon of Pan, Greek god of nature...
Earlier the same year, the Jubilee boosters combined business with pleasure in sponsoring a kissing derby which caught even the Watch and Ward off balance. Clinch totals ran up as high as 26 straight at Wellesley, while one speed demon bussed 15 debs in three minutes at a Brattle Street tea dance...
...Demon King or Witch...
...Yale Clinic, which charges no fees, psychiatric reassurance is combined with a few new wrinkles. One of them: group therapy. Selected groups of a dozen or so patients meet weekly to consider their problems and the Demon Rum. A modification of the Alcoholics Anonymous method (without the religious and confessional aspects), it has multiplied the number of patients that the clinic's limited staff can treat...
Invisible Demon. The obstacle to higher speeds was "compressibility," that invisible, ravening demon formed in the air by the plane's own motion. Long before an airplane itself reaches the speed of sound (770 m.p.h. at 68° F. at sea level), the air, which is speeded up by passing over its surfaces, touches locally that critical velocity. When it does, a "standing sound wave" may set up such vibration that the plane flies to pieces...