Word: diabolicalness
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He was nearing 50 and his long greying hair gave him something of the diabolic appearance of Paganini. He went to Rome with his faithful Princess; in 1865, after he discovered they could not get married, he took minor orders in the Roman Church. But the Abbe Liszt had not...
Brahmin women with diamonds in their noses and caste marks on their brows hastened decorously into Calcutta's criminal court last week. Their tawny husbands and friends, in Indian pantaloons or European trousers, packed along the walls. There they heard the public prosecutor declare that the murder of rich...
"Get a key and win a Rockne," chanted a blonde in a streamlined yellow dress. By the Chevrolet exhibit stood a tall young man in the red costume and black busby of the Scots Guards. A cinema showed, while a voice told, how Studebakers can tumble down a hill, be...
A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE-John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster ($3.75). In spite of the considerable success of his two-volume novel Wolf Solent, in spite of Critic H. L. Mencken's dictum that no two-volume novel ever failed, Author Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful...
To Uruguayan editors U. S. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn also seemed last week to have horns, a tail. His diabolic act was to have testified before the U. S. Senate Finance Committee that "in the case of Germany there are hardly any [foreign bonds] in default. In the case of...