Word: satanic
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...lost its charter after admitting an American of Chinese ancestry. In the 90° temperature of Minneapolis Auditorium, the oratory came to a boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain of the Hawaiian Department, "are bastards of Satan!" But when all the shouting was over, the American Legion voted 1,650 to 1,388 to sustain the 40 & 8 Society in its lily-white stand...
...magnetic detectors that reveal the depth, how big the bomb is, how it lies. The trouble is that as bombs grow older, their metal tends to polarize with the earth, cancel out fine magnetic measurements. Hartley must know that a big, blocky bomb like the 4,000-lb. Satan may wind up nose down at a depth of 60 ft., while a smaller, more rounded "Hermann" (named for Goring) usually lies at 20 ft. or less, and nose up because of a retarder ring around its nose...
...Burrows-Ackerman; Allied Artists) is amusing proof of the old saw that each generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap-brim Satan. In the sober retrospect of the '503, he is reduced by Rod Steiger to a mere whitecollar, clean-desk psychopath-a sort of organization maniac...
...French poet Baudelaire should be chosen as the patron Satan of college students vacationing in Florida [TIME, April 13]. His words, "Be drunken always . . . nothing else matters," could be incorporated into a fine party song, and the beaches and motels of Fort Lauderdale would have little trouble passing for the streets and houses of Paris that he so vividly described...
...playfully desired by the impish younger brother Nicholas, falls in love with orphaned Richard, the Mayor's clerk, and grows into a woman by the end of act three. The witch, Jennet, also has time to bewitch Thomas Mendip, the world-weary stranger, (by this time a self-styled Satan) and these two loves develop in counterpoint while the mayor blusters and blows his nose, the Justice strives to look official, the mother chatters and the Chaplain wanders about with a violin (his "better half") and casts forth wisdom to unlistening ears. Since all this is done with remarkable finesse...