Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detect a note of bitterness from those housewives who are disturbed at Jackie Kennedy's "chic"? May I say, on behalf of the male sex, that we love her "devil-may-care chic" and "floor-mop" hairdo...
...Baptist World Alliance, vetoes dancing but smokes cigars. When Negroes come to his church, he lets them stay but on occasion labels their "kneel-ins" provocative and "an exhibition of egotism." A fundamentalist and evangelist who complains that the modern church microphone is "a gadget of the devil, it's bugging me," Grey insists that "spineless and convictionless preaching is contaminating the land" and that Baptists must beware of becoming "ritualistic, formal, cold and dead, like so many other decadent denominations." He characterizes Southern Baptism as "a healthy, wealthy young lady," wooed by ecumenicalism on one side, nondenominationalism...
...earnings to a virtuous young law student named Nestor. Growing jealous of her clients, Nestor-using earnings of his own, and a false beard and spectacles-becomes Irma's one-man provider, "M. Oscar." Irma thereupon falls in love with Oscar; Nestor "kills" him, is sent to Devil's Island, and escapes so as to be back in Paris in time for Christmas and Irma's gift of twin sons...
...known as the damnedest fellow who ever came down Broad Street. For more than a quarter century (1907-33), he was notorious as the evil but lovable genius of the city's criminal courts, an attorney for the disreputable who passionately offered his services (generally free) as a devil's advocate for all forms of socially unacceptable behavior-and the more desperate the case, the better Chippy liked...
...many newspapers and columnists, the devil's due was the back of their hand. You are a godless man, an atheist," wrote Pierre J. Huss of the Hearst Headline Service. "In coming here as a U.N. delegate, your intentions are all bad. You can leave any time, and good riddance." Hearst's New York Journal-American besought all New York to join in 60 seconds of silence "as a mute memorial to victims of Red tyranny," and later headlined a story of a few anti-Communist demonstrations in New York: HATE ROARS OVER CITY LIKE A PENT...