Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernard Shaw wrote to Chesterton: "Faith is a curious thing. . . . You will have to go to Confession next Easter; and I find the spectacle-the box, your portly kneeling figure, the poor devil inside wishing you had become a Fire-worshipper instead of coming there to shake his soul with a sense of his ridiculousness and yours-all incredible, monstrous, comic...
Rarely has a man's hobby so helped his profession. For a while, Jimmie warbled on "Hello, World" Henderson's Shreveport station KWKH. His political opponents seethed: "You can't fight Davis-how in the devil can you fight a song?" In a recent election for public service commissioner in the Third District of Louisiana, Davis beat Huey Long's record (for the same office) by polling over 57,000 votes-20,000 more than both his opponents combined...
Cripps and the Devil. Satirist Joad's Young Soldier is "a fine specimen of young English manhood, with a more enquiring turn of mind than is sometimes found among those who have emerged from the valley of the shadow of middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides...
Magnus (collapsing into his chair): The devil you will...
Perennial Don Ameche is back again, only slightly dead this time, as a visitor to the Great beyond. Question is--Does Ameche go to the Devil or not? Requirement for the entering class into Hell is a thoroughly abominable life, and Ameche telling of his past villainy to numberless females seems to qualify. The women in his life, beginning with Victorian plush-and-tessels Technicolor scenics occupy the major portion of this escapist film. But unfortunately enough, Ameche's caddishness, elopements, and double dealings aren't enough. This comedy is good for chuckies, and makes hell thoroughly attractive. The film...