Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roiter's speech, finally reeled out. laughing. Flallem's wife nursed him through the inevitable physical and mental hangover, kept him from trying once more to kill himself. But the next time the mood got him Hallem was too quick for his saviors. Roiter, too. fell on evil days. To an international insurance company on whose board of directors he served came a cropper. Thanks to Roiter, its affairs were wound up before they fell foul of the law, but the directors' reputations for smartness were not enhanced. Roiter resigned from the university, got many an abusive...
...Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less comely party ("the witch woman"), lies unconscious until a witch doctor restores him. Three African drummers slap out the only accompaniment, sometimes weirdly soft, sometimes fiercely loud. Abdul Assen, the witch doctor, had polite audiences in chills last week as he groveled over the prostrate bridegroom...
Last week he moved out and called in Shinto priests to chase away any possible evil spirits with prayers and water. Just to be certain, he had plumbers overhaul the drains. The priests calculated May 20 the most auspicious day for him to move in again. On that day his wife ceremoniously carried a potted plant into the house and dauntless General Hayashi followed...
...Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this evil abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar...
...opportunity to remedy some of the ills of the past. Not only does the budding Freshman turn to the future, but his predecessor, next year's dropped Freshman, wrecked on the shoals of ignorance, tears his hair, and curses himself, his adviser, his instructors and various other assorted evil genii...