Word: hobgoblin
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...even for district judge is investigated for weeks by G-men. But Black's appointment to the Supreme Court was not even referred to the Department of Justice. The President may not have known the general Washington belief . . . but he very well knew that, with or without a hobgoblin disguise, Mr. Black is a bigot...
...Consistency," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." Surely you would not have me wallow in its quicksands, Mr. Fletcher; surely in these days of my ascendancy, you do not adhere to the mutton-chop philosophies of Truth for Truth's sake. Modern souls use ideas as weapons, and judge them according to their effect. What do I care whether the appeal is to honesty, truth, love, brotherhood, or patriotism so long as in their name men will do and act as I have planned...
...exits and their entrances and most in their time play many parts. Senator Carter Glass "in a class by himself," is cast as hero. Professor Moley plays clown. General Hugh Johnson undertakes a comic Falstaffian role, "chief name caller" of the Administration, roaring about "tom-tom beaters," "witch dancers," "hobgoblin seers," "chiselers," "social Neanderthalers," threatening to "crack down" while NRA goes to pieces under him. Professor Tugwell is the chief antagonist, marshal of the forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during the farce of the Wirt investigation, he denies his "anti-American doctrines," makes himself...
Death Takes a Holiday (Paramount). The hero (Fredric March) of this fantasy makes his first appearance as a garden variety of hobgoblin. A translucent shadow with bad manners and a bass voice, he calls on Duke Lambert de Catolica. announces that he is "the point of contact between life and immortality'' and suggests that he join the Duke's house party for a few days, in disguise. When he reappears, Death is wearing the monocle and white breeches of a minor Mediterranean prince. He amuses himself more than the Duke's other guests with macabre little...
...inspiration, makes mediocre use of the mechanical monsters which littered RKO studios after last year's production of King Kong. Unlike famed Kong, 30-ft. prehistoric whatnot who, transplanted to Manhattan, was shot by airplanes off the top of the Empire State Building, his son is a mild hobgoblin, with small taste for adventure. When Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack (instead of Fay Wray, who aroused his father's lust) arrive to hunt for hidden treasure on his South Sea island, he greets them hospitably, defends them against hostile natives...