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...Roaring Mountain by Lemonade Lake is about an adulteress who is shot dead by her husband and goes to Hell. The Devil is there to meet her-"a naked gigantic man" with "flat muscled belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial and unrestrained, fierce, overmastering, intemperate," "an essence ... of masculinity" fraught with "potent magnetism"-in brief, "the man every woman hopes she'll be raped by." Whenever the Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Jinks in Hell | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...Poor Resistless Heart." From the money young Washington made at surveying, he bought more land, and took to gambling at cards. He accompanied his sick brother Lawrence on a trip to Barbados and picked up a case of smallpox which marred his face for life, but also made him immune to the disease that periodically sliced through his ranks during the Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north," said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deepfreeze Defense | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...hell, beast." More dramatic was a formal statement to be made on landing, with the name of a U.S. airfield to fill the blank: "I am chief commander on Japanese desant [descent] paratroop army. All the airdrome of [blank] has been taken tonight by the Japanese Army. It is resistless, so you must surrender. Answer yes or no. All the Japanese Army has done great attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Desanters | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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