Word: demonizer
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...left her dressing room, a wrestling representative of the opposite sex confronted me. I recognized him as Buz Orio, a large, squat gentleman who had previously concluded a bout with another large, squat gentleman known professionally as the Demon...
...Personal Demon. Hardworking, hard-cussing Kinley, a Californian by birth, has put out 300 fires, has few rivals (many other fire fighters have been killed). He is wealthy enough to retire on his fire fighting earnings (an estimated $100,000 a year), plus royalties on oilfield tools, sold by a company he owns in Houston. But Kinley, who regards fire as a personal demon always scheming to outwit him, can never resist the next jangle of the long-distance fire bell. Says he: "I guess I'll retire when they carry...
...takes the full first act for this sextet to become acquainted; then, one at a time, the colonels spend the next act trying to seduce the princess with the help of the demon and against the concentrated efforts of the angel. This plot is not bad. But there is a serious dearth of supporting dialogue. The Frenchman is always talking about love, the Russian continually tells the others they lack the proper dialectic approach to life, the Englishman murmurs about duty and his hunting dogs, while the American is largely concerned whether or not his psychiatrist would approve...
...Lawrence said of it: "If it is the book of a demon, as ... contemporaries said, it is the book of a man demon, not of a mere poseur. And if some of it is caviar, at least it came out of the belly of a live fish." This week, for the first time in 27 years, one of the major literary curiosities of modern times was reissued on the U.S. literary counter. Hadrian the Seventh might seem caviar to some, to others only a mess of purple eggs laid by a very odd fish indeed. To all, however, it offers...
...Bray, a minor-sized demon...