Word: devil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adolph Simon Ochs was a teacher's son who had begun on his own as newsboy and printer's devil. Working on through nearly every standard newspaper job, he had bought the Chattanooga Times when he was 20, paying for it $250 (borrowed) and assuming its debts...
...takes all summer," he cried. Late reports indicated that he was still fighting, and that his "spiritual filibuster" had turned into a "war." State troopers were called upon to patrol Malvern's streets when the embattled Methodist partisans became violent. A fervent Sproulite prayed for the devil to "give those heretics, those nonbelievers, their just dues...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, made known that he and his wife would soon sail forth on a fishing cruise. The Pinchot ambition: to catch a mammoth manta ("sea devil") such as Explorer-Author William Beebe captured in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands...
...quit Mrs. Hazen's school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to join a stock company playing in Washington, D. C. Later she supported Lowell Sherman, Pauline Lord, Lenore Ulric. She translated La Tendresse from the French, produced it herself and played the lead. She was in The Devil's Plum Tree in Los Angeles when Emil Jannings requested that she take a screen test, and picked her for Sins of the Fathers. She says she likes riding and swimming, but she stays indoors a lot. She spends her holidays in France but has never acted there. Her next...
...music and that music would be unfixed by petty patterns. So the idea grew and out of it came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone...