Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montmartre to Montparnasse. This harrowing revelation that British children yet unborn would pay for their father's absinthe drinking could never have passed His Majesty's censor had not the Times been privileged to announce simultaneously that the French Government was banning and prohibiting le diable vert (the green devil). Last week, after 19 years, all Europe was startled by persistent re ports of fresh absinthe deviltry in Paris...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...
...remark that "The Pacific Coast is still generations closer to frontier days than any other part of the country," and "Labor, too, has still something of the devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber camps...
...Judge, we heard that you're going to pass sentence Sept. 6, and of course that will be a hell of a big news break and we'll have to work like the devil, and, well, as a matter of fact Geno and I had figured on getting married that day and our plans...
...country's unexplored areas, to discover the source of the Indus, and to visit Tashi-lunpo, monastic citadel of the Tashi Lama, holiest man in Tibet since the flight (in 1904) of the Dalai Lama. All these things he accomplished. He interviewed the Tashi Lama himself, witnessed "devil-dances" in the sacred city, set the first European foot on the Transhimalayan range. But Traveler Hedin's graphic descriptions, no less graphic sketches, while they make good reading for armchair travelers, will lure few to follow him to a chilly land where every countryman goes armed, where the chief...