Word: sadistical
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...makes The Man Who Knew Too Much one of the neatest melodramas of the year. Furthermore it includes the first English-speaking cinema performance of Peter Lorre, who, as the chubby, anarchist fiend, enacts a part which admirers are likely to consider comparable to his famed portrayal of the sadist hero...
Allure (by Leigh Burton Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
...story is told that at a banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over the manifold virtues of the depression in eradicating the weak and inefficient, etc., Mr. J. M. Keynes approached him afterward and said, "There is only one word to describe you. You are a sadist." Dr. Sprague is a primitivist whose primitivism extends back only to the nineteenth century. Along with many other learned economists of our time he yearns for a world which exists no more and insists upon an attitude which can only seem uselessly scholastic...
...hatrack. His jealousy and shame drove him to drink. Lixlee was diabolically cunning, never let him get any proof, though apparently she took on any handy man, at any hour. If Authoress Canfield is to be believed, Lixlee was not only a nymphomaniac but a sadist; finally she turned golddigger and ran off with the town's rich old bachelor. Anna, married now herself, could no longer help her brother in the old maternal way, but her matchmaking reaches a successful issue when her candidate came back to town and picked up Anson's alcoholic pieces...
...Byronic poet (Galsworthy enthusiasts will remember with a shudder that he was also an apostate). This time it is her sister Clare who is in a mess. After 18 months of married life she has come back from Ceylon with the news that her able husband is a sadist. On the boat home young Tony Croom has fallen in love with her. Clare's husband follows her to England, tries to make her come back with him, and when he fails, warns her to take the consequences. The consequences are that she is shadowed, discovered in more than...