Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quinn Martin-". . . the gentleman from Florida, Nebraska and Oklahoma looked and acted as if they were a long way from home and why the Devil did we ever agree...
...Lucky Devil. In the days of Wallace Reid, they had a habit of putting him in a racing automobile whenever ideas dried up. The people went home happy. Applying this same formula to the mildly similar Richard Dix, one finds that human nature still reacts feverishly...
These young people, "about 35 of them," had but recently discovered the awful importance of their immortal souls. Temptations beset them. Religion moved them, but the Devil was never far away. So they banded together, pledged themselves in aid one another in the Christian life. The idea spread. Hundreds, then thousands, then millions joined their band, n nearly every Protestant church today, he bulletin board announces: "Christian Endeavor Meeting, Wednesday [or it may be Sunday] at 7 [or it may be 8]." At the meeting will be prayers...
...students would necessarily be exceptionally intimate. One of many bright prospects seen for the trip was that of Dr. Thwing in the rôle of traveling companion, expounding Theology?he is an ordained minister ?to his followers after a visit to the grave of Confucius or a devil-service in Borneo; or Pedagogy?that is his specialty?after inspecting Punjab University at Lahore or a Norwegian public school...
...special devil by the name of Tittivillus frequented the monasteries of the Middle Ages. It was his task to gather in a bag the dropped syllables and mumbled words and omitted words and bad grammar of the brethren, as they took part in the service, and deliver them to the father of evil. On one occasion, he told a holy abbot that he brought his master each day a thousand bags full of 'failings and of negligences and of syllables and words' that were done or undone in the abbot's order in the course of their...