Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lone Wolf. The first to mobilize was Tom Girdler. His career of devil-may-care unpopularity had come to a climax in a 1940 Roosevelt campaign speech, when the President used his name as a synonym for enemy-of-the-people. Shortly thereafter Girdler put out feelers to Washington and decided to quit fighting C.I.O. That was now kid stuff; the big leaguers were fighting Hitler...
Able Director Ben Sharpsteen and his staff fretted over Dumbo's characterization and form, had about decided to give him a head shaped like a human's when Artist Vladimir ("Bill") Tytla asserted himself. Dark, ponderous Tytla is generally assigned to the "heavies," created the devil-giant for Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain. Since he was doing the big elephants, he had to draw a Dumbo stand-in for the sequence in which Mrs. Jumbo receives her baby via stork...
Dargue was the antithesis of the hell-raising, devil-may-care aviator. He seldom unbent, drank nothing stronger than beer. He thought nothing of working 16 to 18 hours a day, kept himself in prime physical condition. His performance in the recent Louisiana maneuvers was outstanding. He often took chances he would permit none of his men to take. Piloting his plane from Shreveport to Lake Charles, he was advised that half-a-gale was blowing, that he couldn't possibly come...
...DEVIL IN FRANCE-Lion Feuchtwanger-Viking...
Jittery France put both Feuchtwanger and Koestler in internment camps. The difference of their treatment is epitomized in the two books' titles. Feuchtwanger's "devil in France" was the crass indifference, apathy, venality, incompetence of French officialdom. His camp guards were friendly, often respectful-and always bored. The bulk of his fellow internees were "nonpolitical" or nearly so: Jewish scholars, doctors, lawyers, artisans, tradesmen; Saarlanders who had sided with France in the days of the plebiscite, fleeing into France when they lost; ex-members of the Foreign Legion, a few of whom had lost...