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...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...
...that process in a century. But the Press did not hesitate to use that awful word, and although James Bunting was free to enjoy the sacraments outside Chichester, that young man professed to believe he was just as much excommunicated as if the Church had consigned him to Satan with a Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting he had his parents' money, he said: "In the past it may be I was a naughty...
...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...
...SATAN CAME TO EDEN-Dore Strauch-Harper...
...hideout; next came copycatting settlers; then the journalists. One family came with an expectant mother, because they knew Dr. Ritter would be able to help her confinement. Most of the "settlers" were only visitors, but one fine day, when Dore and Dr. Ritter had been three years on Floreana. Satan herself arrived in their homespun Eden. She came in the guise of a German baroness of dubious antecedents, uncertain age and still more ambiguous behavior. With her she brought several devoted men-followers. The Baroness soon had them all by the ears. She and Dore hated each other at sight...