Word: henchmen
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...eccentricities of the bad man are noteworthy. He worships weird, heathen deities while masquerading as a Caucasian Christian. He knows secret trap doors, cells, torture chambers, depraved henchmen. He keeps a dwarf brother locked up in a stifling cage. In short, he inspires the belief that if anything can be more astonishing than the cinema version of virtue, it is its conception of vice...
That Edna St. Vincent Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette...
...braided pants. Excerpts from Forbes: "Here are some of the things learned about Henry Ford and his activities during a visit of investigation the writer has paid to Detroit: He and his products are being rigidly boycotted in Detroit. "How has the illwill that Ford and his henchmen have stirred up affected his business? Very, very seriously, according to all that Detroit can gather...
...Endicott, expressing himself as amazed and delighted with these results, gave constant credit to his henchmen, said nothing of himself...
...type of abuse of power was the arbitrary removal of Dr. Henry Guzzallo, President of the University of Washington. It was charged at the time that Dr. Guzzallo, a political opponent of the governor, was removed at his instigation by a Board of Regents packed with the Governor's henchmen, and that the real grounds for removal were political. The statement of the Regents to the effect that their action was taken because of improper political activity" on the part of the President did not give any less weight to the accusation...