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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work is their "reading plays" performed frequently on an informal basis. During the past term G.B. Shaw's "In Good King Charles Golden Days" received its American premiere here as part of this program, as well as an adaptation of "Troilus and Cressida" and a student play, "The Devil's Art," by Allen Friedman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Back to Pre-War Production, With Heavy Spring Schedule Slated | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Santa Claus is saved from being lynched by a child, who sees through the devil's mask and identifies him. And Santa's gift, which no one would take in what Death has described as "an age of salesmanship," finds a touching-and universal-taker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Takers? | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...National Union of Students, certainly nobody's potsy, was in on building IUS from the first. The Executive Committee is not 3 to 1 composed of Reds, or Red-controlled. As to Elliott's squawk that the U. S. has only one man on the executive, how in the devil many should we have on a 17-man committee which represents 36 nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

With its reading yesterday afternoon of "The Devil's Art," a new play by Alan Friedman '49, the Harvard Dramatic Club revived the valuable practice of giving student playwrights a chance to see their work on a stage. Productions of student plays were conducted on a grand scale by the famous 47 Workshop under Professor Baker, but have been non-existent in the two decades since he was refused a theatre by President Lowell's administration and went off to Yale. There he established a great drama school with one of Harkness' millions which Lowell had turned down, while Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

...cursed him in sleeping, that every night He should dream of the devil, and wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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