Deplorable Word word itself, and had vowed that none of them, nor their descendants, would seek to discover it. Jadis said she had "learned it in a secret place and paid a terrible price to learn it". The book does not say what that price was, or give further details on the Deplorable Word. Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to any specific weapon of mass destruction, but he alludes to the power of humanity to destroy life. Writing in 1955 in the midst of the Cold War, Lewis has the lion Aslan say to the central characters from the
Violent Is the Word for Curly about to agree, Curly throws an errant basket, going over the fence and exploding in front of the professors, who are blown back into the Stooges clutches. The boys vow to clean them up and give a little "super soyvice." "Violent Is the Word for Curly" was filmed March 14–17, 1937, over a year prior to its release date. The film's title is a parody of the 1936 RKO film "Valiant Is the Word for Carrie"; the title is notable for being the first that has little bearing on the film's plot. Footage was reused in the 1960 compilation feature