Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese use the expression "foreign devil" with or without meaning disrespect, depending on the inflection...
...Standing, Phoebe Foster, and Nancy Sheridan, were given full opportunity for their best efforts. Sir Guy, for whom we have always had a particular fondness, enjoys his part immensely. He is what every man dreams the times may find him when he has reached old age. . . a handsome old devil with a past, one who can philosophize with women and act the oracle with men. When he says "Call no woman respectable until she is dead," the audience senses his sincerity with keenest satisfaction...
...fishermen off Devil's Island, at the entrance to Halifax Harbor, one day last week sighted the sickle-shaped fin of a swordfish speeding shoreward. Surprised to see a swordfish so close to land, they pursued it. Soon they saw the reason. Behind it was a school of sharks. As they watched, the swordfish turned, attacked one of its pursuers. The sharks surrounded it, cutting off its flight. No sooner had the swordfish beaten off one shark than another was upon it. The fishermen counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while...
...German army with a single tank. The rest of the picture deals with their attempts, back in America, to locate a man known only as Smith. Stan Laurel tries to identify the unknown with the cough drop brothers, and with "Al," unsuccessfully. In the end that old devil coincidence does the trick...
Next pale, white-powdered Empress Nagako (who has borne only daughters) received bronzed Conqueror Honjo in private audience, a rare honor for a man.* Their Majesties then jointly had the "Devil Tycoon"? to lunch. Straight from their Royal Palace he drove to an ugly alley, so narrow that his limousine could not enter. Alighting amid frenzied cries of Banzai! he squeezed down the alley to his tiny, Spartan home...