Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a good job at a shipyard but I would give it up if I could join the Air Forces WACs, but as I will not be 20 until December 1944, I am not eligible for any of the services. Why in the devil don't they lower the age limit...
...went on the Pacific Coast air two years ago. Its theme song, Time on My Hands, is gone (Helbros Watch Co. snapped it up), but the rest of the show is still there. There is a rendition of We've Got the Lord on Our Side ("The Devil's out there waitin'; it's either us or Satan. . . .") or a similar melody by the 26-inmate glee club. There are selections by a 22-piece orchestra, which sometimes tackles a Rachmaninoff prelude "in the style of the San Quentin Orchestra." There are vocals by prison songbirds...
...almost as rare as saints. One such rarity is the Oxford don, Clive Staples Lewis. In The Screwtape Letters (TIME, April 19, 1943) Author Lewis gave his readers Hell, and they liked it. Americans and Britons bought some 200,000 copies of these ironically instructive letters from an elderly devil in Hell to his callow young nephew on earth. But writers, as Dante and Milton knew, have usually felt more at home in Hell than in Heaven. Last week in Christian Behaviour (Macmillan; $1) Author Lewis succeeded in the much tougher task of making Heaven as readable as Hell...
...Flesh & the Devil, under the knowing direction of Clarence Brown, brought to their apogee the most glamorous wrestling team that ever paralyzed the cinecircuits, and drew from a wit of the period the inspired salute...
Winston Churchill, defending his advocacy of an understanding with Russia, once declared: "I would make a pact with the devil himself if it would save England." Now Hitler twisted this symbolism: "It will not be Great Britain who will tame the Bolshevik devil, but Bolshevik poison will eat up Britain more and more and lead her to ultimate disintegration...