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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theatre Guild and propelled by delicious off-stage airs, Goethe's masterpiece was revealed to Manhattan theatregoers as a tedious, mouthy drama several acts too long. There were moments when it was possible to believe in Mephistopheles, as played by Dudley Digges, an urbane and prowling devil; but his villainies were those of a barroom miscreant, his sacrilegious witticisms those of a sophomore, and it was impossible to get excited about the events which led up to the doctor's tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Later, Outcault went to the Herald where he created, in 1902, a little devil in pretty clothes-famed Buster Brown. If children cried for Castoria in those days, they kicked papain the shins for Buster Brown and his sweetheart, Mary Jane, and his dog, Tige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of Outcault | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...several reasons, give the devil his dues. DAVID CHARLES SCHILKE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Shortly after dawn. Mahout Ali was found dead and Mahout Wee terribly beaten and unconscious, amid a jumble of smashed furniture and crockery. When arrested, Christian Mahout Wee maintained that the "Christian Devil" had taken vengeance upon himself and Mahout Ali for their impiety in permitting a Sacred Elephant to leave his native Burma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pa Wa | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...What Devil is riding Briand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Schweinehundl! | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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