Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word-of-mouth recommendation; 2) practical jokers who leave messages for their friends to call his number. Even the latter sometimes get so interested that when the operator asks for another nickel, they put it in. For those others who get mad and tell him to go to the devil, Pastor Hall has a ready reply: "I can't go with you, I'm going the other...
Thus, as he will every week for the next year, Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux took his famed Radio Church of God from its Washington, D.C., tabernacle to Manhattan "to open a second front against the Satanic kingdom." For singing the devil and hell out of a town, Elder Michaux-self-styled "General of the International Forces of Right against Wrong"-has at least one solid endorsement: successive police chiefs in Washington have declared his preaching reduces crime...
...Elder lives well on his followers' contributions, also runs housing projects, an employment agency, the Happy News Cafe. He denounces Father Divine as the "spirit of the devil incarnate," offers his followers no easy Divine-style heaven or sub-heavens. Instead, he warns them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored...
Some were reminded of an old Balkan proverb: "In time of great danger, walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge." Ahead of the U.S. were many bridges, and many devils...
Sheridan, best Northern cavalryman, was 34 at the end of the war. Nathan B. Forrest, whom General Sherman called "that devil Forrest," and doubtless the best Southern cavalryman...