Word: satanic
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...pupils. Threatened with tar & feathers, Prophet Voliva declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...
...Protestant pastors quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the trial at Darmstadt of 29 members of a sect called Ernst Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Searchers). Their crime was that they take orders only from God, believe that all man-made laws and governments are the work of Satan. In this they include the Nazi State. Police told them months ago to disband. They did not. They were arrested. But their treason was so huge and vague that even Nazi law could not touch them and they were acquitted...
...Hepburn characterization of Trigger as a queer, hot-tempered warmhearted hoyden is wasted on the picture. In mood and manner Spitfire belongs to an obsolete era in the cinema. Typical shot: Trigger describing a lout who has tried to kiss her as "consared Son of Satan...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...
...Reno, John Edwards Sievers filed a claim to the $100,000 willed by the late Horace Elliott Wadsworth as a reward for the apprehension of his murderer. Said John Edwards Sievers: "The coroner said Wadsworth died of 'acute alcoholism.' This is evidence that Satan, or the devil, killed him by an indirect method...