Word: hexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's Hitler (last year's MAN) : Here is a boy who is long overdue. Cannot TIME bring him out again, and finish the job? It might atone for some of the innocents you have put the hex...
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They are scrupulously clean about their sidewalks and gardens, but careless about their person. They are ardent churchgoers, but "hex" conscious and superstitious. They are hard people to do business with, but faithful when once won and kept coddled...
Ralph Bellamy also offers a satisfactory performance. The story is such, however, that there is little opportunity to develop any emotional power or sequence of action. "Spitfire" falls into the current motion picture habit of abbreviating. The existence of Hex superstitions is indicated only by a few statements on the part of some of the local characters. A more skillful scenario writer would have given an interesting picture-illustration of this unusual phenomenon of present-day America...
...Hofnagel is a well-to-do farmer of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, known and respected from Allentown to Lancaster as a potent "hex-doctor." A seventh son, he believes implicitly in his own powers. He informs a village woman that if she would know which of several suitors to accept, she should put initialed onions beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits...