Word: mephistophelian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wall Street). He likes surf-swimming, the rougher the better. He plays tennis with slams and bangs. As he sits at his rather old-fashioned desk, overlooked by a picture of George Washington, and listens to his three telephones ringing, his curved eyebrows may become a bit more Mephistophelian as he remembers one of his pet business maxims?that the typical U. S. system is the concentration of responsibility in the hands of one accountable individual...
...Eckener. With passengers, plus air mail, plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days for the crossing. As the indom- itable, tired oldster...
Last winter to Hubert R.Knickerbocker, Berlin correspondent of New York's Evening Post, appeared one Vladimir Orloff, bald, vandyke-bearded, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. Mephistophelian M. Orloff had in his possession letters elaborately typed on official Soviet notepaper purporting to show that U. S. Senators William Edgar Borah and George William Norris had accepted $100,000 bribes from Soviet agents...
...Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...
...Cleveland, 200 ambitious, attentive young men, about to be sworn in as attorneys, listened to the words of a grim jurist in a shovel-tail coat-a gentleman whose pointed head, lean yellow face and sardonic lip bristle gave him a Mephistophelian air, but whose words were admonitory, noble, penetrating. He-Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall of the Ohio Supreme court-was flaying the professional ethics of Clarence D arrow, famed champion of Leopold, Loeb and the Ape. Said he, referring to the Scopes trial (TIME, July...