Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usher's job is to put the buyers [congregation] in a receptive mood for the supersalesman in the pulpit to work on. . . . We don't like the hale & hearty traveling salesman's greeting." But at the other evil extreme is the cold-shoulder church. "There must be no distracting influences [from the service]. A good usher asks himself: 'Is the sidewalk clean? Are the steps clear of snow and ice? Are the lights too bright? . . . How is the heat?' Heat makes or mars a service. If we see somebody nodding, we check the heat before...
...young days a woman smoker was looked upon as something evil. For 50 years I have smoked cigarets. Must I now resort to a filthy pipe just so a lot of old ladies who do not really enjoy smoking can do it just to be smart and "show-offy...
...PHILIPPINES Hard to Get Long ago the Japanese dubbed William Henry Donald "the evil spirit of China." They offered angry and growing rewards for his capture, dead or alive. Once they almost got him-when Japanese Zeros attacked his transport plane over China-but his pilot escaped into a cloud bank. Last week it turned out that they had had him for more than three years. Still they could not find...
...helps Bone realize that during these blank spells he may very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right, using Netta's neck as a proving-ground. Still amnesiac, he plants her corpse on the crest of a Guy Fawkes bonfire, goes home and gets on with his concerto. Thanks to the prodding of Dr. Sanders, he begins to get his memory back...
...Existence of Evil. Thurber is as sensitively aware of the existence of evil -i.e., of stupidity and cowardice and self-love-as any American writer of his time. The knowledge pervades his lightest work; and in one small corner of his world, in such stories as The Cane in the Corridor and The Breaking Up of the Winship, evil unmasks itself in grim tragedy...