Word: fiending
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...Mephistopheles, he was not the suave fiend intended by the composer. He had not the pretty wit and mocking contempt for silly humanity. He was simply Chaliapin ? boisterous, funny, romping. But the Metropolitan resounded with cheers and the Russian baritone broke the strictest rule of the house when he gave an encore to the Golden Calf song in the first...
...altogether barbarous vice. If M. Barbot had remained with his machine, his overalls or whatever aviators wear, would probably be decorating some New Jersey villa; certainly Boston women assailed the fair Rodolpho as furiously as ever the Bacchanalian revellers rent poor Orpheus. The Enthusiasm of the demoniac souvenir-fiend is boundless, and if half of the present monuments are to be kept for posterity to admire, vigorous measures will have to be adopted...
...Dice of the Gods. Mrs. Fiske is the latest actress to lend her talents to the dramatic literature of dope, which has filled nearly a dozen theatres this season. At least she is a cheerful dope fiend. Hers no life of nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous...
...significance, Ravensbane is suddenly confronted with his scarecrow self, in the the glass of Truth. At the beginning of the fourth act, he is found in the deepest agonies of despair, for his kindled spirit revolts at sight of himself, as he really is. He at last recognizes the fiend in Dickon, revolts from his tutelage, breaks the pipe whose smoke has been the breath of his body, and falls at Rachel's feet, dying...
...moral bearings of the human situation in which his creators, for the paying of old grudges, have placed him; and finally, love begetting in him a soul, he renounces his precarious existence for the sake of others, and foils the devilish intent of the which and the fiend who produced him. It will be seen at once that such a change of tone between the beginning and the end, and so unexpected a call on the sympathy of the audience from a figure which at the outset was not even animate, create a situation the acting success of which...