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Word: satanic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more . . . far from conquering our enemies we let them make us after their own image. So at long last, at the end of a ruinous era, we shall be facing again the question-which God grant us grace to face now before it is too late-'How can Satan cast out Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To 50,000 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...mind which can most easily be administered to by a dose of rationalization. This group reads that a single new poison gas bomb can wipe out hundreds of thousands of people and whole cities. A kind of popular propaganda has led this group to believe that the Satan vs. God war in Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered just a slight scuffle compared to the next Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMA VIRUMQUE | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super-Bridge | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...overtones; a departing soul is the signal for banging casements, flickering candles, fluttering curtains. Valiantly pushing its way through is a slender story of a boy (L. Libgold) and a girl (Lili Liliana) promised to each other at birth, driven to desperation when they are parted. The boy invokes Satan and goes to destruction; the girl invites his wandering soul to enter her body as a dybbuk. Climax of the film, the exorcising of the dybbuk from her body by the rabbinical council, makes the rites of witchcraft seem like Hallowe'en pranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Satan exalted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Birthday Present | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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