Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost enough to make a so-called Christian country believe in the Devil. There was certainly plenty of evidence of his devilish work around, for anyone...
During the dull, dragging, off-duty hours in the South Pacific, pilots in the Marine "Red Devil" squadron killed time with long bull sessions. When they talked of postwar plans, Captain Kendall Everson always had the" same answer: "I'm going to start an airline." His tent mate, Captain Gerard Ray, liked the idea, often argued its merits with Captain John Daugherty, who thought it overambitious...
Author Jessamyn West, who is of Indiana Quaker stock herself, has collected 14 of her pleasant, nostalgic short stories in one volume. All the yarns, based on material which echoed through the author's own childhood, are about the Birdwell family-who have the Devil's own time reconciling the ways of William Penn with the general cussedness of human nature...
...politics as nothing but falsehood, murder, deceit, and violence, as something completely and one-sidedly filthy, and if worldly ambition prompts him to take up politics, he pursues it in the light of this philosophy. . . . Since he thinks it is unalloyed evil, he believes he has to be a devil to pursue...
...Phoneticians have wasted a century raising an empty laugh over the spelling of cough. They have never knocked into our heads the simple fact that a letter saved in spelling is saved not once but millions of times. Millions of hours [are] now wasted in a sort of devil worship of Dr. Johnson...