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Harvard did receive the books that Johnbequeathed in their entirety. Then in 1764 a firein Harvard Hall consumed all but one of the books.John Downame's folio, "Christian Warfare Againstthe Devil, World, and Flesh," was saved--because astudent had failed to return the book on time...
...wife cuts her hair as short as a man's and dyes it ash-white, and persuades him to exchange sex roles in a way whose mechanics are not explained. The man is to be the woman and the woman is to act the man. In bed, they do "devil things," also unexplained, and the wife brings a lesbian lover into their menage...
...horizons. A glance at a Berlin telephone book reveals Ottos everywhere, but hardly any Kimberlys. Evelyn Waugh periodically had to reassure Americans that he was not a woman and that Evelyn was quite a common name for boys in England. Or as Peter Lorre whined in Beat the Devil, "In Chile the name of O'Hara is . . . a tip-top name. Many Germans in Chile have come to be called O'Hara...
...hidden in the hills/ I've been here for nearly seven months now"), but the sentiments are not likely to get the Del-Lords invited to a lawn party at the White House: "It wasn't my vote that put the cowboy on the hill/ But I'm the Devil of the West himself/ To a band of wild-eyed men/ Now in the name of God we're being held against our will...
...enemies he has been almost literally the devil's advocate, the ruthless attorney who made his name as the whispering aide to Senator Joe McCarthy during the anti-Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s. To his friends and clients, including politicians, mobsters and plutocrats of every description, he is the ultimate courtroom fighter...