Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right, as the challenged party to choose the weapons and I shall fight Mr. Dixey with books at 20 yards, I to be armed with the deadlier weapon-Dixey's Reminiscences of 40 Tears on the Stage." In the Theatre Guild's revival of The Devil's Disciple, the heroine faints for nine hours. G. B. S. says he meant nine minutes. But the Guild has the manuscript on its side...
...gallantly as unsolicitedly taken the occasion to rush into print and explain exactly how they feel as to relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE;?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion?half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the ushers to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...
...theatrical producers, tobacco magnate and movie corporations simultaneously condemn these maps as empty boasting, one has difficulty in understanding just what conditions actually exist. The "antis" are proceeding along three lines of attack: successes in one gild over similar reverses in others; and in the same way, the "Devil's Disciples" camouflage their Western defeats with their Eastern triumphs...
Apparently, the devil has inspired the amusement people with the wit to call for referenda, for everywhere except in South Dakota these popular ballots have been favorable to their cause. The "decline" and "de-generation" of Rome, caused, as Mr. Tarkington has shown, by Sunday gladiatorial combats, have failed to impress America with the importance of one day of absolute holiness. The Lord's Day Alliance is peculiarly fortunate; it will never...