Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devil was back in San Marino...
...Devil in the Flesh. French sensitivity lavished on a story of illicit wartime love (TIME, March...
...manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep the devil in Hell, pointed them upward in the Churchillian manner when they wanted evil to triumph. Reminded of this fact by a distraught Cornish woman, undistraught Mr. Churchill went right ahead giving his sign...
This week found radio wrestling rather self-consciously with its soul. The tempter was that familiar old devil, John Barleycorn, represented by Schenley Industries, Inc. Schenley had quietly asked if the networks would now be willing to sell time on the air for whisky advertisements...
...Devil in the Flesh. French feeling lavished on a story of illicit wartime love (TIME, March...