Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devil said to Noah, "It's bound to clear up."-Anon...
...Government of Pietro Badoglio squatted on the Italian volcano between the German devil and the deep Allied...
...Devil. Bern reported that German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had slipped into Italy for crucial talks with Italian Foreign Minister Raffele Guarig-lia (see p. 23). In any haggling with Germany, the Badoglio Government stood at a disadvantage. The Nazis held as hostages for Italian conduct some 400,000 Italian workers in Germany, some 25 Italian divisions hemmed by the Wehrmacht in the Balkans. German troops had occupied the strategic sectors of northern Italy. The Nazi position seemed clear: if the Allies would not accept a neutral Italy, the Germans would accept nothing but Italy's continued alliance...
...cigar smoke than ever appeared in his scripts, and this Technicolored fantasy is no exception. The Lubitsch approach brings comic relief to such weary devices as the French governess, the son who is altogether too much like his wayward father, and the final personal interview with the Devil. When Lubitsch's delicate invention lags, many spectators will be only too glad to concentrate on the Eastern beauty of Gene Tierney as the one true love of Ameche's life. Had Ameche died 20 years earlier, audiences would laugh no less, grow less weary...
...most unhappy people on Guadeloupe are the Negroes and their leaders. They hate the obstinate Vichyite Admiral Georges Robert, who abolished the island's General Council and had its full-blooded Negro President Valentino interned on Devil's Island in French Guiana...