Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago Victor published a Ballad Singers album. Next week a newcomer among phonograph companies, Bost Records, is putting out another Siegmeister album: Songs of Early America. Some of the songs: The Saint's Delight, A Virgin Unspotted, The Devil and the Farmer's Wife, Soldier, Won't You Marry...
...they let their fields erode. He detested cotton worse than sin, and erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies in his fields, "that is the work of the devil. It is a work against God. . . . God never intended that farmers should butcher up land. You and other farmers have ruined a good hill farm." "Ignorant churn-headed fool!" he added, out of hearing. Old McDonald decided to spend the rest of his life reclaiming that ruined farm...
...will advance over blackened ruins, through blasted and fireswept cities, across scorched plains. . . . Our fighting forces are born attackers. We will hit the enemy wherever we can. . . . It means risks, but safety first is the devil's watchword today...
...more difficult to escape from than famed Devil's Island, Fernando de Noronha houses murderers and other felons from the State of Pernambuco, political prisoners from all Brazil. Between the island and Natal, on the bulge of South America, lie some 225 miles of ocean. Few prisoners ever escape, for authorities see to it that there is little wood for building boats or dugouts...
George C. Hopkins, parachutist who lighted on Devil's Tower in Wyoming last October and was stranded there for six days (TIME, Oct. 13), was accepted as a parachute instructor for Fort Benning. The Army rejected him at first because unhappy landings had knocked most of his teeth out, finally waived requirements...