Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oakland, Calif. came a pertinent note on women in industry. To avoid a truck, a bus full of shipyard workers ground to a sudden teeth-jolting stop. Instead of yelling at their driver, in line with the time-honored practice of bus riders, the passengers jumped out, bawled the devil out of the truck driver for getting in the way of their girl chauffeur...
Australian-born, 70-year-old General Carpenter was a $1.25-a-week printer's devil before he joined the Army in 1892. "My sole program for the Army," he says, "is religion-always hot, as General William Booth used to say he liked his religion...
Last week Whirlaway gave his admirers more than a swish. Dressed in his devil's-red hood with one-eyed blinker (to keep him from bearing out), he strutted to the post, cakewalked around the track until he reached the stretch, then, with nothing to pass but the grandstand, put on the famed finishing sprint that has made him the turf world's top money winner. Time: 2:05 2/5 for the mile-and-three-sixteenths...
...tried to kill this spirit and substitute for it some ersatz thing, something which is really its negation. He has trampled underfoot the great faith which has nourished the West. He has trampled on the Cross and substituted for it a crooked cross-a fit symbol for the new devil worship which he has tried to impose on his country and the world...
...just that moment one of the conshies, 26-year-old Russian-born Michael De Beausset (who played Major Swindon in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple), was due to turn up for induction. Instead he wrote the Army a letter: "As I explained to my draft board, I like the United States of America. But my sentiments would hamper the war effort." He was promptly arrested as a draft-dodger...