Word: devil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...devil incarnate was loose on the blast...
...straight to the Journal's devil flew...
...much of "A Trip to Brazil," too many "Personals," too many "Things Chronicled," and too many "Clippings." The University is a new paper from the University of Michigan, which promises to be good-natured, and leave to the rest of the college press the part of "playing the devil generally." We will wait and see. The Yale Record and Courant are both good representative college papers. They are full of news, and are interesting without being brilliant. They are inclined to be abusive, and abuse when not witty is unpardonable. We never approve of abuse; but when it is rich...
...Harvard we don't haze Freshmen any more, but at West Point they still devil a Pleb., and at Brown they soap the neophyte, - perhaps because he needs...