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Word: sadists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b. Mrs. Pawle, blonde, voluptuous, thirtyish, nymphomaniac, is the wife of Alan's doctor, who is a lanky, cynical sadist. The scene of Alan's seduction ought to sell at least a couple of thousand copies. The preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

There are only two possible candidates, 1) "Peacemaker" Chamberlain, and 2) that mad dog of Europe-that pathological sadist-Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...certainly plays the decisive role in Author Fisher's minor cases. A 200-pound English department head is a suppressed rakehell and sadist. Pompous little President Ledwidge launches a one-man anti-necking campaign by sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Egomaniacs | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Mutiny on the Bounty, which it resembles in its melodramatic plot and realistic detail, it will as certainly annoy those who feel that Magellan was the equal of Columbus, Marco Polo and Henry the Navigator. Author Ford melodramatizes the tiny, lame, yellow-skinned Portuguese explorer as a cold-blooded sadist whose only real genius lay in the grandiose scope of his malevolence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutiny With Magellan | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...homosexual Countess Geschwitz helped her escape. In Paris, Lulu philandered crazily with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end came in a sordid London attic. Impoverished Lulu combed the streets incessantly for men, made the mistake of bringing home Jack the Ripper. The orchestra reached a shuddering climax when the sadist disemboweled Lulu, concluded sombrely with Countess Geschwitz wailing over her "angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again, Lulu | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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