Word: demonism
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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...
...Smith '45, right guard, was on the Freshman team last year and moved right up to the Varsity. A demon on defense, the Georgia boy still needs a little more speed and finesse in pulling out of the line...
...Hitler made a contract with the demon of the air, but the contract ran out before the job was done and the demon has taken on an engagement with a rival firm...
Dazed peasants in County Limerick, staring up this week from their fields, may have thought the Old Boy himself was whipping those demon horses and riding that painted coach down the road to Rathkeale. But it was the Irish Stagecoach, a spanking four-in-hand, with liveried coachman and guards, sounding an ancient English horn in the good Irish air. Revived by Viscount Adare, perhaps as a publicity gag for wife Nancy's holiday inn at Adare,† the stagecoach carries 25 passengers, will make three de luxe trips each week...