Word: satans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedazzled by his own lust for power and for a woman, Mitchell eventually loses the ability to say "Get thee behind me, Satan." Shedding his wife, his honest friends and his self-respect as he wins the governorship, Lawyer Mitchell is on the point of delivering himself for shipment to hell, but his better nature triumphs in the end. The happy ending is scarcely a surprise, but Director John Farrow leads up to it with a series of small shocks, and neat twists. He appears to have the exhilarating conviction that man-meets-devil can be as interesting...
Under modern church law anathema is a grim ritual in which the person who has incurred the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church is excommunicated and condemned to "eternal fire with Satan" to save his soul on judgment...
...Paderewski in the hall. Another time, on his way to the concert, he was accosted by a Salvation Army lassie who wanted him to give it all up. "Don't do it, brother!" she cried. "Don't lead those poor people into sin . . . with the arts of Satan...
Last Detail. Sioux Center's five-man town council ducked the issue, put it up for referendum. Once again, "Satan's tool" lost-by 61 votes. But that did not settle the matter. The Legion's lease ran until April 1, and the town council, which had leased the Town Hall to the Legion, was up for election before then. Meantime, the issue of a municipally owned light plant arose, and Sioux Center's high school team reached the semifinals in the state basketball tournament. In the excitement, the antimovie forces failed to line...
...thank Satan," exclaimed the Socialist delegate, "that I have lived to see the day when the great popular masses united. I beg Satan to give me six months more, so that I shall see the Front in operation...