Word: devil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country where' such conditions do not exist. The immense power which women have over what might be called the national pulse, bolstered by their influence in the education of the next generation, and culminated in some countries by the new power to vote, forces the defenseless male between a Devil of the emotions and a deep sea of domesticity. The only trouble with the present situation is that in this case the women are fighting among themselves, occasions which are usually bitter but unproductive...
...best historical romances now are being written by the Germans: Author Neumann, one of the youngest historian-romancers, is one of the best. His The Devil (Der Teufel) written on the same subject as Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, made Quentin Durward seem like a nursery tale. King Haber (Konig Haber) is a collection of three stories, more like condensed novels than short stories, written several years ago, now translated for the first time...
...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
...Devil!" screamed the mother of one of the young women at the richly dressed old woman. "You Vampire! Trying to make white slaves out of honest girls! I won't let you take my Gretchen to Buenos Aires...
This extraordinary traveler said that his most harrowing experience took place on Devil's Island, the notorious French prison. Here he lived with the prisoners and underwent the hardships of the life that kills half of the new prisoners each year...