Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most compelling writer I have read. You literally force me to read about things I don't want to know. Once I start on an issue of TIME, I cannot let go a syllable. What the devil do I care about the IMRO in Bulgaria? or about Fascist Hitler? or the scandals of New York? Yet I actually smack my lips after reading what you have to say about...
There apparently is very little field for invention once a playwright has started out to write a show about a minister and a bad girl. One can generally count on a second act curtain in which the minister, having visibly weakened in his fight against the devil and his pomps during Act I, abandons himself to the delights of the flesh. Examples: Romance, Rain. The scene of Pagan Lady is laid in Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted...
...like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted a revival of Flesh and the Devil...
...tour of India. Air-minded, he wrote the official account of the U. S. Army's world flight (1924). Last February he returned from a long trip through wildest Asia. Says he: "I have never been bored for five minutes in my life." Other books: European Skyways, The Sea Devil, Raiders of the Deep, Woodfill of the Regulars, The Sea Devil...
...curious may inspect as they will this aged treasure of the College as it lies in its gilt frame behind crimson curtains. It is the original charter of 1650 granted by the General Court of the Colony and signed by the Governor, Thomas Dudley. "The Christian Warfare against the Devil World and Flesh," sole survivor of John Harvard's library, is another prized possession of the treasure room now on exhibition. Beside this volume are Bibles which belonged to President Dunster, first head of the College, 1640-1654. One of them contains his signature...