Word: sadists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...arrested on suspicion of having murdered him, the account of her trial would certainly be front-paged. It would give the Press hysterics if: 1) her defense counsel, the greatest criminal lawyer of his day, were to become desperately enamoured of her; 2) the presiding judge were a sadist and notorious lecher...
...picture would have been much better if it had been more explicit about how its most interesting personage reaches this sad predicament. A plot which is more of an insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht...