Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the Normans were good rulers. They liked travel and other men's wives. Two examples are Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy who returned from a journey, declared Arlette the daughter of the Innkeeper of Falaise divorced. She had been married almost twenty years. He moved her into the Castle to be his duchess and the mother of William the Conquerer. Henry Plantagenet who was on of England's great Kings. He was a traveler who spent barely half of the thirty-five years he was king in England. He helped Eleanor of Aquitaine...
...said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. But, like old Jube, I seem...
...afraid of canary birds? Well?" The trade completed, Marcus remarks that the weather is ''darker than one of these here epileptic days," drifts on to trade the fountain pens to his friend Meyer Cohen. Offered a camera, Marcus declaims: "I am full of the devil today...
...told an Associated Press reporter he was going to break with Dietrich. He said he had done all he could to further her career, that he considered he would hinder her development. Dietrich read the story in the press. For two days on the set (they were making The Devil Is a Woman) she would not speak to him. Later they were reconciled...
...coyly described as "temptingly near New York," and Harvard men are accused of scattering, presumably on masse, over the entire country. Bryn Mawr, the cathedral of wholesomeness, has girded up its skipants and is carrying the fight to the enemy. The lure of the world, the flesh, and the devil is to be overcome by more pleasing campus activities: these apparently are to consist of a glittering program of "hikes, dances and teas in the halls, hobby club meetings, and plays and athletics...