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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Herschell V. Jones, 66, onetime (at 12) printer's "devil" on the Jefferson (N. Y.) Courier, owner and publisher since 1908 of the Minneapolis Journal, a director of the Associated Press, accurate forecaster of wheat crops and famed collector of books, etchings, pictures; of heart disease; in Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

CONDEMNED TO DEVIL'S ISLAND-Blair Niles-Harcourt Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Devil's Island | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...soon as he had learned from the "Aces" the finer points of his late thieving trade? Well, so had many another expected, and moreover struggled well on his way to freedom when manhunters tracked him down, and goaded him back to the solitary confinement, disease and starvation of Devil's Island (famed for the incarceration of Dreyfus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Devil's Island | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...ship paradoxically sailing round the world to Europe, like a wolf Aimee Semple McPherson descended upon the unsuspecting fold. The assistant shepherds closed the gates as well as they could, but they left some holes under the fence, and the wolf was not to be kept out. The devil in the shape of Mr. Voliva's doctrines had to be driven from the sheep before it led them hopelessly astray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BATTLE OF SOUL SAVING | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...just returned from Hollywood where she supervised and arranged all of the dances in Gilda Grey's vehicle "The Devil Dancer", Miss Braggiotti also took a part in this picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCESCA BRAGGIOTTI TO DANCE IN H.D.C. SPRING SHOW | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

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