Word: demonism
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...critic and exponent of advertising.* Under the title: "Lucky Strikes Save Florida's Crew," Mr. Calkins deplored the fact that Hero George Fried had hardly docked before he was endorsing Lucky Strikes via radio and newspapers. It is Mr. Calkins' agency that has created the famed Fire Demon in the Hartford Fire Insurance advertisements; to the testimonial demon Mr. Calkins is equally antagonistic...
...Senate and the U. S. public did not become thoroughly aware of him until 1914, when President Wilson appointed him a member of the first Federal Reserve Board. A Senate Committee on Banking and Currency questioned Mr. Warburg, their inquiries colored somewhat by a distorted idea of the Money Demon and Mr. Warburg as an incarnation of it. At that time a Kuhn-Loeb member, and with an income of some half a million a year, Mr. Warburg devoted himself to building up the Federal Reserve system. For four years (1914-1918) he served on the Federal Reserve Board...
...learning the trade. Straws and hairs and fingernails are stuff for fantastic poppets; Ahab, the neighbor Thumb's bull is fit to make a virile familiar. In answer to her prayers that the Prince of Darkness send her a tutor in the black arts, there appears nightly a demon disguised in the swarthy skin and gold hooped earrings of a pirate...
From New York city, that stronghold of Demon Rum and the despair of prohibitionists, there has been found an advocate of the cause of Carrie Nation and Andrew Volstead. The existence of this non-bootlegging citizen was revealed when a manager of a hotel in that city received a letter from a guest to the effect that a bellboy had refused to get him any refreshment more satisfactory than grape juice in spite of all inducements. Very emphatically, if a trifle ungrammatically, he replied: "Sorry, sir, I can't help you out in no way, shape or form." Fortunately...
...poltergeist. The poltergeist is a fearful creature from the spirit world that delights in invading the realm of the finite and taking possession of luckless mortals, causing them to do all sorts of uncanny things. An eight-year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor so desired. Whereupon several fearless scientists isolated the boy in a glass cage to learn the secrets of this dread phantom. The poltergeist was evidently deeply impressed with such audacity and has since shown...