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...Devil's Children. The colonists had plenty else to concern them besides the Indians. In New England, especially, the Devil made trouble. "Exhibiting himself ordinarily as a small black man," says that great theological gossip, Cotton Mather, the fiend "decoyed a fearful knot of proud, froward, ignorant, envious, and malicious creatures to lift themselves in his horrid service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...commission's cool, if not too reassuring, report: "Danger of murder by relative or other intimate associate is very much greater than the danger of murder by an unknown sex fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Unknown Sex Fiend | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...normalcy." The journey was not unlike Christian's trek in Pilgrim's Progress. The wayfaring nation started in the Slough of Dispond, went through Vanity Fair, passed the lion-guarded House Beautiful, profited from the counselings of Prudence, stumbled on the Hill called Difficulty, defeated Apollyon, a fiend, saw through the hollow words of Mr. Worldly Wiseman, encountered the contradictory Works of the Law, viewed the Delectable Mountains, encountered the doubletalk of Mr. By-ends of Fair-speech, and finally came to the Hill called Clear. But nowhere did anyone find Normalcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pilgrim's Progress | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Marx's essay was entitled, "The Steam Fiend: The Development of a Symbol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marx Wins $400 In Essay Contest | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

Members of the Lampoon business board will be on hand to peddle programs and hawk peanuts before the game. WE THEY Fiend, Wis72820 Farwell D. Smith ocC Farb, the Desperate, clum $imons, .05 Quislin, 7 Stupor, tilt Solmssen, ugh Photographer (sic) Cabot to Burrhaid, ng Lowell to Peron, old pro God. Bellylaff, yuk Cheers, 2 Cockatoo, awk Tiger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frahious Crimeds Spread Napkins Today Make Ready to Caste of This Meat, 23-2 | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

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