Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another copybook maxim, the old saw about an idle mind being the devil's workshop has validity in psychiatry as well as in everyday life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
...Blimps, helicopters, jet planes and big bombers flew over Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first flight. At the same time the original Wright airplane-which was recently brought to the U.S. after 20 years in London's Science Museum-was hung up beside Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...week's exhibition-showing two windblown cuties on the Coney Island boardwalk-was done overlooking a Vermont stone quarry. "It would have made a beautiful landscape," Marsh recalled, "but not for me to paint. A couple of farmers peered over my shoulder while I worked, wondering where the devil I saw the invisible girls...
...Tokyo, where Olivia was born in 1916. When she was about eight, an event occurred which -as any cocktail party psychoanalyst knows-was enough to give her complexes to last a lifetime. Her father (in the words of wife Lilian, he "spoke like God but behaved like the devil") decided to leave his wife and marry the De Havillands' Japanese maid. Mrs. de Havilland had already taken Olivia and her younger sister Joan to Saratoga, Calif. There, after divorcing Walter de Havilland, she married George M. Fontaine, manager of a local department store...
...Christian Marshall Plan? "Should we not . . . come to the clear understanding that 'God's design' really means His plan; that is, His already come, already victorious, already founded Kingdom in all its majesty-our Lord Jesus Christ, who has already robbed sin and death, the devil and hell of their power? . . . Should we not see that 'God's design' therefore does not mean the existence of the church in the world, its task in relation to the world's disorder, its outward and inward activity as an instrument for the amelioration of human...