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Ireland never heard of this traffic with Beelzebub until 28 years had passed. Then, in the heat of an election, someone challenged Eamon De Valera: "Where are the Russian jewels?" Dev told how his old crony Harry Boland had hidden them at his home in Dublin. In 1922, as he lay dying from Free State bullets, anti-Free State Irish Republican Extremist Boland pledged his sister and mother never to give up the jewels until Ireland was free. Not until Britain left the Irish ports in 1938 did the Boland women turn over the treasure to Dev's government...
...snake and the slanderer, according to Krylov, engaged in a solemn argument as to which should go first, and each said the honor should be his. The problem came before Beelzebub...
...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...
Last week the Catholic bishops of the Italian dioceses of Rimini and Montefalco, who supervise the spiritual welfare of the world's oldest and smallest republic (38 sq. mi.; pop. 12,000), in a pastoral letter called on St. Marinus to combat Beelzebub's latest manifestation-a Communist-sponsored gambling casino...
...imagine "Faust" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" sloppily clad in a 20th Century plot, with Ray Milland as Beelzebub, and you get some idea of what "Alias Nick Beal" is about. And if you've heard the voice on that certain local radio station warning you "never make a dealllll with Nick Bealllll," you have the complete picture...