Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many other recipe names are equally farfetched, e.g., Matthew Punch ("because it is such a nice punch for serving at Christmas time"), Pentecost Cake (black devil's food), and Prophet's Pulse (a vegetable and egg dish). For church suppers, Author O'Brien recommends what she calls a Scripture Cake: 4½ cups I Kings 4:22 (flour...
...apparently not in the least concerned by new evidence, just handed to him, which proves Esterhazy guilty and Dreyfus innocent. Indifferently, the general turns away. "We must protect the institution," he bristles self-righteously, "even at the expense of the individual." And so Dreyfus is shipped away to Devil's Island, sentenced for life to solitary confinement...
...Jesuit fathers of his school have seen a boy of talent and want him for their own. The boy passionately wants to accept his vocation, but the devil presents himself in female form-specifically in the guise of a steamy 35-year-old woman, a friend of the family but no friend to chastity. In relatively few lines, Soldati carpenters a cross for his hero. Should he have faith in his passion or give up his passion for the faith? Neither his mother, plagued by desires of her own, his pious grandmother, his innocent playmates, nor his latently homosexual confessor...
...named Irma-la-Douce, who plied her trade on the streets of Montmartre but reserved her true love for a handsome young pimp named Nestor-le-Fripé. Because he returned her love, Nestor put on a false beard and booked Irma by the week. After an interlude on Devil's Island, Nestor returned to "Coulaincourt, where stroll the filles d'amour," to settle down in unmarried bliss with his Irma. This curdled romantic idyl furnishes the plot for Irma-la-Douce, Paris' most popular long-run musical; it is also the vehicle that launched France...
Even as a baby, Jim did the star turns at their home in Bray, a seaside village near Dublin. In a morality play staged in the nursery, little Jim wriggled across the floor as the devil, with a rolled-up sheet for a tail, and easily stole the show from Stanislaus' staid Adam and a sister's Eve. It was a pleasant middle-class childhood until Papa Joyce began dragging his brood on an alcoholic long day's journey into night...