Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...says that the little devil who takes our husbands away from us and makes the cold nights colder and the long nights longer is coming to us again," answered great Mrs. Maria Mickiewinski to her friend little Mrs. Anna Grigorovitch...
...what little devil is that?" asked Anna...
...little devil that is made of rye and barley and potatoes and trickles down our husbands' throats and into their stomachs and so on," was the answer that little Mrs. Anna Grigorovitch received from her friend great Mrs. Maria Mickiewinski...
...organization will be to stamp out profanity, whether spoken or written. The use of such terms as "damn" or "devil", will be considered a crime of the same degree as bootlegging, and punished accordingly. All literature of the past will be carefully expurgated, that the rising generation may be free from the danger of using strong language: for the influence of the classics upon the youth of the present is profound. The organization will not be disbanded until swearing, like the use of intoxicating liquors, is stamped out. "Hell" as Samuel Johnson once remarked, "is paved with good intentions...
...these casualty rates, though it caused much hard feeling at the time, was a good thing in bringing about alterations in the competitive system. Slavery has been abolished; compets now have a few rights as students which their bosses must respect. No longer is the compets between the devil and the deep sea, endeavoring to satisfy both his manager and his professor...