Word: demonism
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...right face, a genre scene representing the life about a mediaeval church is carved. The bell-ringer is hard at work pulling the cord of the bell under the tower. However, the bell-rope seems not to be attached to any bell, but rather to the hair of a demon perched on the summit of the tower. A cowled personage is seated beside the demon on the roof holding what may be a tile in his hands, while over his shoulder appears a cutting hammer, the stock implement of the mediaeval mason. The connection of this scene to the others...
...Strachey, however, Florence Nightingale was more like the kind of person Carrie Nation might have turned out to be had she been interested in caring for the sick instead of breaking up bars with umbrella and hatchet. The Strachey, or "real" Nightingale was possessed of a fatigueless demon, was no mystic...
...Hageman, outstanding Crimson end and veteran from last year, who functions well on the receiving end of some of Harvard's passing threats. Hageman also is a demon on the defense...
...actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just at arm's length. Perhaps Emmie's accent works the trick...
...snow storm which made it impossible to travel-passed through the place, it was stopped, charged with exceeding the speed limit and each student was fined $10. Tourists traveling east or west must of necessity pass through this hamlet and I would suggest that they "pass right through" thereby demon- strating to merchants that a change in their policy of persecution would be to their advantage. C. G. ABBEY...