Word: demons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...more closely resemble homo sapiens than any other fossil apes ever discovered.* One genus they named Ramapithecns in honor of Rama, stalwart, uxorious hero of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Another they christened Sitgriva-pitkeens, after Sugriva, king of the monkeys who helped Rama get his wife back from the demon-king of Ceylon. The third they named Bramapithecus for the Hindu God Brahma...
...State of Louisiana there has ruled for several years a ruthless political demon, Huey P. Long. Efforts to laugh him out of existence have failed, and when his actions became unbearably tyrannical the people of his State appealed to the Senate Committee on Elections and Privileges to investigate their charges that Senator Long was incapable of representing Louisiana. We have been convinced of the legality of the anti-Long side; we have met Long and have been disgusted with him. His very character, guarded by a bodyguard, is repulsive to our idea of a United States Senator...
...young gentlemen! That expression about a political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...
...indistinguishable from the guarded patois written in Hearstpapers all over the U. S. In The First Billion he writes of Stanford White's "mortal death," burlesques Stillman, himself and the English language in the same breath: "Something about the repose, the quiet self-mastery of cows subdued the demon in his own breast. He passed hours photographing his placid animals...