Word: demonized
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...done no mean growing in her first four summers (played with delicate tenderness and piping falsetto by Robert Hormell). The plots of Squire Cribbs (snarled by James Wood from behind the blackest of moustaches) come to early fruition as the supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from the prison cell toward which the wretch of a Squire is directing...
Harvard, although it lost the football game, won, after a valiant struggle, the Championship of the Demon Rum. Nevertheless, one must admit West Point put up an amazingly good fight, considering the fact that two of its heartiest sections were, by orders from G.H.Q. completely and utterly dry. All the cadets are subject to a most rigorously enforced prohibition against intoxicating beverages, and so West Point's drinking was confined to the cadets' supporters, friends, and old grads. The Army's future officers may not be supposed to touch the stuff, but their allies practically make up for their teetotalism...
...some eight years ago as the overt expression of collegiate rejoicing at a long awaited victory over a traditionally triumphant Harvard, the assault has at long sad last become a trite ritual. Last week the H.A.A. News dismissed the destruction of the posts as a manifestation of that old demon rum, and pointed with pride to the fact that very few of either student body engaged in the fray...
General Johnson would fight like a demon behind closed doors and then be circumspect and calm as a May morn in the White House lobby. Putting together all its available information, the Press came to this conclusion...
...print, you know, is what is bought by the demon space-buyers of the agencies and the fat has been none too plentiful of late years. Let me hasten to add, too, that few weeklies in the Northwest have printed much of what is commonly called "sore-toe" advertising, for the very excellent reason that little such space has been offered. Once a weekly newspaper standby, this type of advertising still appears in reduced volume, but within the columns of the "patent insides" [i. e. syndicated pages]. Many a publisher uses it either because of laziness, local news scarcity...