Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some obscure moral or esthetic urge to explain the primitive horror of incest are on the wrong track. Incest frightens the savage because it is abnormal, and the perpetrators are put to death not so much to punish them as to rid the community of vulnerable points through which evil forces may break...
Last week Stanley Hoflund High, one-time foreign correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, member of the staff of the Christian Herald, tried to run these evil rumors to ground in Washington. He talked to newshawks and others who had seen the President recently. He had an interview with the President at which the "whispering campaign" came up for discussion. Then Stanley High went on the air, broadcast to the U. S. the solemn news...
...held it in my hand and examined it carefully. Since then I have neither lost my life, nor my mind, nor my appetite. On the contrary, I am quite O.K., and my luck has steadily improved. I don't know how to explain that, except maybe the evil influence was off duty on that particular evening. W. E. WOODWARD...
...responsibility for the destinies of the State, I swear to God Almighty-One in the Holy Trinity-as President of the Republic, to defend the sovereign rights of the State; to guard its dignity; to enforce the Constitution Act; to apply equal justice to all citizens; to ward off evil and danger from the State and to consider the care for its welfare my supreme duty. So help me God and the Holy Passion of His Son. Amen...
...celestial excursions." But at 57 his anatomical search for man's soul turned Swedenborg once more to supernatural intercourse. This time he had no doubt that the angels and spirits were real. They scattered sweet or disagreeable odors on his body, produced pain, heat, cold. One night some evil spirits got into his scalp, fled at dawn "with a slight hissing sound, like when some little distended vesicle is perforated." For the next 27 years Swedenborg made almost daily excursions through Heaven and Hell, heard the meaning of the Scriptures expounded by angels, spirits and the Lord Himself...