Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sebo has expressed great respect for Harvard. "They're the same team that came down and beat the devil out of us last year," he said gloomily, yesterday afternoon...
...your issue of Oct. 6, your CINEMA man-whose writings I love and esteem-errs in a manner which is natural, yet a little irritating to me and to Mr. John Huston. The story of Beat the Devil was not lolled together in Ravello. It was written as a novel by myself, and published (same title) by Lippincott in 1951. The lolling began at a lakeside in the Wicklow Mountains-that is to say, I lolled while Mr. Huston read my book, laughing in a gratifying manner. Mr. Huston paid me to write a screenplay. With a lot of help...
...hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
Liberally spiced with song-and-dance routines, the plot revolves around the story of a fan of the National Pastime who sells his soul to the devil for the chance of leading his team to a pennant victory over the Yankees. Improbable as the plot may sound, especially the part about the Yankees' losing the pennant, it does provide an interesting background for the music...
Archdeacon Dunlop proposed that a commission be established to determine whether the church believes in the existence of the Devil or not, and as he spoke, the lighting system flashed on and off frantically. But the convocation turned the proposal down cold. The Anglican Church Times was delighted that the devil hunt had been headed off. "The Son of God had no doubt about the existence of such forces," it editorialized. "Where he was certain, it is hardly necessary for Christians to doubt...