Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the German viewpoint Louis Barthou is thus the very old Devil. Rightly Adolf Hitler was in a white fury last week at the seeming entente between France and Russia. It was this which caused Dictator Hitler to egg on Dictator Pilsudski and Colonel Beck. In Berlin the Realmleader was reported to have stormed to an official of the Wilhelmstrasse last week, "If France and Russia have an alliance, then let this alliance come out into the open!" But such is not the method of the Old Diplomacy. Without an alliance France drew England into the Great...
...speak to tens of thousands, to my certain knowledge, in the United States of America this evening. There never was a time when, in your history, the devil had more nearly his right of way everywhere than he has under the Stars and Stripes today. Your beer parlors?your flood of liquor that is demoralizing your country?are like ours...
...Europe most connoisseurs take their green devil in the form of an "absinthe drip." Sugar is placed in a special absinthe spoon pierced with holes which is held above a tall glass. Some begin by putting absinthe in the glass, pouring water over the sugar. Others begin with water in the glass, pour absinthe over the sugar and achieve the same effect, a cloudy, greenish, diluted drink. Only fools sip absinthe straight...
When Irene Castle made her pre-War fame, the late Jim Europe's band played for her. In it was a young Negro banjoist from Indianapolis named Noble Sissle. Sissle followed Europe to France during the War where they were members of the 15th New York Infantry's "Black Devil Band" and whence they returned after Armistice to tour the U. S. Later in Boston, a shell-shocked drummer boy shot and killed Europe...
...sheep of a gentle English family. Author Walpole, who has a good word for everybody, seems to like even his own rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry Lyndon. Neither is he a devil-may-care fellow who is his own worst enemy. Nor is he a gay, reckless, unscrupulous adventurer of the Gil Bias order. At best he is only a sawdust figure of a gentleman, at worst only a petty crook...