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...Shaw has pulled himself together to add one more preface to his long and brilliant stock. It is entertaining, but not too entertaining to obscure the fact that perhaps the only things Shaw consistently believed in were himself and that lean deity, Creative Evolution, a sort of mixture of Lilith and Mrs. Sidney Webb. Apart from that he never made a joke which he did not sooner or later pass off as truth, and never stated a truth that he did not eventually turn into a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Plays by G.B.S. | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...roll downhill when frightened, or 2) a milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah's wife (probably Naamah). For no reason that Chapman and his associates can figure out, the most recurrent question is: "Do Indians have beards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Indians, Snakes & Noah | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Lily Sammile is Lilith, the female demon of Jewish folklore, the first wife of Adam, who wanders the world caressing men with her gritty hand, kissing them with her dusty mouth, luring them to the forgotten cemetery shed, which is the Gatehouse of Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...London. The scene of Lilith's present depredations is a place called Battle Hill, a rise of ground with a "strategic situation in regard to London." Through history, Battle Hill has witnessed massacres without number-"mornings and evenings of hardly human sport." Now, "from other periods of its time other creatures could crawl out of death, and invisibly contemplate [the living], awaiting the hour when they should either retire to their own mists or more fully invade the place of the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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