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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dominican Republic. The U. S. State Department also announced that U. S. Marines would be withdrawn from the Dominican Republic? which occupies the same island as Haiti, during the months of July and August. Four transports sailed from the U. S. to fetch off the devil dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Notes, Jul. 7, 1924 | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...Carpenteria, Calif., the brothers Rosall, Jesus and Mateo Manzano flung themselves upon D. Goena, cut him up about the head, were jailed pending news from his hospital. Goena, from the Mexican Winterland, had told the Mezani that the world was flat, had called them "devil children . . . crazy with false knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Explosion | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...future. "The dare-devil spirit which for a time promoted indulgence in liquor is passing." College students are coming to the belief that alcoholism and venereal disease are the two curses of America and of the rest of the world, and must be stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thwing's Review | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...movies, colored pictures, and Eastern music, Mr. Thomas tells the story of the attempt which almost succeeded. But his lecture is chiefly based on the strange events of the expedition before it reached the mountain proper Many scenes never before filmed are shown, such as those of a Tibetan devil dance in one of the highest monasteries in the world. This is accompanied by weird music from the orchestra and is strangely attractive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS CRIMSON REVIEWS PLAYS | 6/5/1924 | See Source »

Catskill Dutch. Revival meetings are being more and more avidly seized upon by playwrights to furnish good stamping grounds for plays. They have so much natural drama in them, with everybody in sight fighting the Devil at the top of his voice, that any act which contains them virtually writes itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

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