Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rational and sophisticated age, the devil and hell have become very complicated. The true faith is capitalism. Its priests are lawyers and economists. The devil consists of an abstract man called a demagogue." Last year's defeat of Supreme Court reorganization constituted "a way of taking away from a great popular majority the fruits of their recent victory at the polls." The effect of anti-trust laws has been "to promote the growth of great industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels...
...Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours, and Dr. Jung believes that the unconscious mind therefore tends to augment it with a fourth element. This is probably woman-the anima, or earth mother; although Dr. Jung points out that the element of evil, or the devil, is also excluded from the God-symbol, in which it might logically take part. At this point Dr. Jung excuses himself, declaring: "The church, I assume, has to invalidate any attempt at taking such results seriously. She must even condemn any approach to these experiences, since she cannot admit that nature unites...
...Kukachin is blonde, wide-mouthed Norwegian Sigrid Gurie, engaged by Producer Goldwyn with elaborate secrecy. Cinemaudiences may recognize her as the girl Gary Cooper taught to kiss in one four-minute cinema lesson, a sequence to go down in cinema history with the Garbo-Gilbert pacesetter (Flesh and the Devil) and the May Irwin-John C. Rice long count...
...Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...
Abhorrence No. 1, Hell-devil No. 1, to Poet Pound, is usury. In nine of these ten Cantos he does some powerful cursing at usury in English, Latin, and Greek: he calls it commune sepulchrum helandros kai heleptolis kai helarxe (everybody's grave -man-destroying-and city-destroying- and state-destroying). Throughout history Poet Pound sees the same monetary blood-sucking going on, whether in profaned ancient Greek temples, perverted lyth-Century Mounts of Pity (i.e., municipal pawnshops), or stone-faced 20th-century banks...