Word: fiends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually, Tim sees everything clearly, and manfully goes to face his retribution. But not without a lover's regrets: "Oh, Sinkanda! I don't know whether you are more a fiend or more a woman," said Timothy, embracing her. "If only we could have met under other circumstances! It should have been different, somehow." Sinkanda's answer: "Ah, my friend, how many star-crossed lovers have uttered that...
Sleep, My Love (Triangle; United Artists) is a rather fishy thriller about a sleek fiend (Don Ameche) who enlists the help of a fake psychiatrist (George Coulouris) to drive his wife (Claudette Colbert) to insanity and/or suicide. Claudette is rich and Ameche is crazy for a gold digger (Hazel Brooks). An eligible Bostonian (Robert Cummings) traps the villains after some narrow squeaks...
...land in Heaven thinking that you're there to save helpless people from the savage Fiend. Remember, the Angels have been fighting for a long time (in the last battle, fought in their own country, Satan was routed, forced to take refuge in Hell). And wherever the battle against sin has been fought, Angels, like Americans, have been in there pitching...
When the servant had brought in the lamp and drawn the thick curtains against the night, there was nothing that so pleased the Victorian as to lay back his head on the antimacassar and curdle his comfortable blood with fiction about fiends in human form. So Victorian Novelist Wilkie Collins, who dispensed such fiction, was not displeased, one moonlit night in the 1850s, when a beautiful lady, robed all in white, ran up to him on a lonely road, screaming for succor. She had escaped, explained the white lady, from a fiend who had held her in durance with...
Sebastian's older brother, Lord Brideshead, was an avid collector of matchboxes. Sebastian's sister, Julia, was like a "Renaissance tragedy. . . . Dogs and children love her . . . my dear, she's a fiend. . . . There ought to be an Inquisition especially set up to burn...