Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During eleven months of the year, God or the devil might be paying the running expenses of the U. S. government as far as most U. S. citizens know or care. But every March, several million taxpayers awake to the fact that it is they who foot the bill, that it is they who pay the salaries of the Army, the Congress and the big Na-vee. Last week, approximately 5,000,000 citizens gingerly unfolded crisp new income tax blanks, racked perplexed brains while they tried to figure how much they owed of the $1,700,000,000 total...
High among the foremost prejudices of our academic forbears, however, was that which led them to look upon the theatre with particular horror and loathing, as the breeder of corruptness and the instrument of the devil...
Right You Are (If You Think You Are). Playwright Luigi Pirandello, like the Devil, seduces the idle. After years of temptation, the Theatre Guild succumbed last week to spending some unengaged time and talent on special matinees of a cerebral shadow dance wherein "the Italian Shakespeare" divides a flighty family against itself and lets in village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another...
...Sever is the one Harvard undergraduate who did not go to see the orchidaceous Greta Garbo in "Flesh and the Devil", because of the rumor that the film would be censored after the police department had had a chance to feast its eyes on the square-head's curves. Robert Sherwood said it was a good thing that the smooth Swede was married to John Gilbert before the scenes were shot. It was really rather a Puritan precaution, we hear, but it may serve to raise their divorcing average...
...hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week, one C. E. Miller let it be known that in some white gypsum hills near Estelline, Tex., he had found a colony of extraordinary creatures, captured...