Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publisher's Christmas party in Manhattan, the Devil, who is everywhere, found himself cornered by a critic from a Little Magazine. The critic thought that the Devil looked too forceful for an intellectual, too thoughtful for a book publisher, and decided at first that he must be somebody high up in cinema. So he began to tell him about the esoteric first novel he hoped to sell to Hollywood...
...Devil broke in rudely: "Have you read The Gauntlet...
...Certainly," said the Devil. "In my line we try to keep up with all the latest religious fiction. Rather a bore these days. But The Gauntlet has something special...
...thing, a two-month sale of some 800,000 copies," said the Devil. "Why, more than a million people must have read the book...
...stormy night in January, 1764, Harvard Hall was burned to the ground. The collection was reduced to the immodest total of 404 volumes. Of these, only one, "The Christian Warfare Against the Devil, World, and Flest," can definitely be identified as having belonged to the original John Harvard collection. Another Harvard Hall was erected in 1766, where the library shared floorspace with a kitchen...