Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Devil's Cargo. There was a time when the West was stained with certain undesirable community characters. It is alleged that about 75 years ago, Sacramento gathered together all its undesirables and attempted to deport them to San Francisco. The latter refused to let them land, and out to sea they drifted. The possibilities for romance and dirty work in such a cargo are evident. They have been realized in a generally exciting picture in which Pauline Starke gives a specially good performance...
...fool who said: "Americans are the most begoverned people in the world." Between the proposers of extraordinary blue laws and equally extraordinary anti-blue laws the public is sure to be caught by the devil and the deep blue sea either going or coming. But while feasting on this lugubrious thought, it may be some comfort to know that other nations have their petty restrictions...
...Would that Williams College would let "business success" go to the devil and revert to the idea of Mark Hopkins, of being a Mother of Men." Williams Record...
Nicaraguans became alarmed. Who would protect the Government if the Marines were to leave? "Don't go," implored President Solorzano in effect, as he requested the U. S. Government to leave the "devil dogs" in the country until the formation of a U. S.-officered constabulary...
...blazing fires of Mussolini's wrath were kindled. At the reopening of the Chamber of Deputies, the Premier appeared as a man possessed with the devil. The Government benches resounded with the thumps from his large, white hands. His heavy face was red with fury, his eyes flashed like a thousand daggers in the sunlight, his voice sounded like the bellow of a bull as he turned toward the Fascist Deputies and roared...