Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been stewing up hotter & hotter scandals about German Catholic dignitaries, lumping them all, by implication, as currency smugglers and sexual perverts. In a recent issue of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer appeared the ultimate in double-barreled cartoons: on the left under the caption Sworn to Satan a leering Jew seducing a German maiden; on the right a priest and nun tagged Belonging to the Church; these two captions trailing into the screamer AND BOTH LOST TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE PEOPLE: UNFRUITFUL...
Bengal Tiger (Warner) injects into circus formula No. 1-about the lion tamer (Barton MacLane), the lion tamer's wife (June Travis) and the handsome young man on the flying trapeze (Warren Hull)-one new and valuable factor. Satan, meanest tiger in captivity, chews off the lion tamer's right leg at the picture's start, obligingly devours what remains of him at the finish. Between times he prowls down a village street, goes on a rampage in a butcher shop, makes kindling out of innumerable kitchen chairs, kills a substitute keeper, growling the while...
...role of Satan in Bengal Tiger was largely performed by a tiger actually named Satan and actually reputed to be the meanest in captivity. For some dangerous sequences Barton MacLane had a double; for others Satan did. Satan's double, like himself an inmate of Selig's Los Angeles Zoo, was an aged and amiable tiger named Bobby. Sequences showing Satan chewing a man were made by clipping together shots of Satan chewing a dummy with shots of Bobby playfully pawing a live person. MacLane, onetime Wesleyan footballer, actually worked a cage full of lions while their real...
...Satan Met a Lady (Warner). The Thin Man (1934) set a new style in detective pictures. Imitations of it have been frequent. Satan Met a Lady is the thinnest imitation of it so far recorded, remarkable chiefly because Dashiell Hammett was author of the stories from which both pictures were adapted...
...prelate from Pope down to vicar general. A dread excommunication formula-which Anglicans once used -ends: "We deprive him . . . of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord. We separate him from the society of all Christians. . . . We declare him excommunicated and anathematized. . . . We deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment. . . . Fiat, fiat, fiat!" ("Let it be done, let it be done, let it be done...