Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought him, St. Mawr the bay stallion, and made Rico ride him. Rico had known horses as a boy in Australia and to fear St. Mawr angered him beyond control. One day, in St. Mawr's own country, near the Devil's Chair in Wales, Rico screamed at the rearing horse and dragged him over backwards. St. Mawr lashed and strained to rise, his neck arched cruelly, his mad eyes leaping from their sockets. Crushed beneath, Rico still reined the immense horse to earth...
Tittivillus: a special devil...
...imagine Horace Greeley's snort or Charles Dana's explosion had the printer's devil come to their elbow suggesting that there was too much copy to fill their papers, that their editorials had best be cast out. They would have shouted: "Throw away the rest and save the editorials!" They were journalists conducting great journals. Today, we have newspapers run by newspapermen...
...thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor Wolle brought down his baton with the air of a man casting out a devil. The festival began...
...Devil. Lionel Barrymore's appearance in any show is a signal for a certain quantity of thanksgiving. With his three shows this year-The Piker, Taps, and Man or Devi]-the quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately...