Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illuminate the attitudes of Whitman himself. He does not make of Whitman an intellectually unified individual at the expense of verity, he does not even make him an intellectual in the restricted sense of the term. For once a biographer has finished his work without creating a god or devil out of the subject. Whitman was neither a radical nor a reactionary; he was a little of each with much else mixed in, and the complexity of his views and, more important, his intuitions, provides an engrossing subject for the reader who wants to become acquainted with a mind which...
...ever about good plays-has become a Katzenjammer Kid about bad ones. This season he has pulled leg after leg of flop after flop. Of Case History he wrote: "The stepmother goes off her chump." Of Come Across: "You see him in bed, which is no treat." Of The Devil Takes a Bride: "This is a sordid tale, my mates." Of the author of The Good: "An old Hudson (N. Y.) boy, Mr. Erskin . . . should hesitate about visiting back home." Of Thanks for Tomorrow: "Thanks for tomorrow, thanks for last week, thanks for next Friday-in fact, thanks for everything...
Warned that Austrian veal was becoming scarce and that the famed Wiener Schnitzel cutlet would soon be a thing of the past, Nazi Commissioner Josef Burckel replied: "If higher interests demand the disappearance of the Wiener Schnitzel then what I say is-let the Wiener Schnitzel go to the devil...
Heavy, hackneyed, played too slow for melodrama, written too badly for anything else, The Devil Takes a Bride seemed to forget that it was the cast, not the audience, who are supposed to live...
...Bain has an affair with a schoolteacher, visits Portygee families, gathers a vast anti-Symmes lore. His complete triumph comes when he saves Symmes's life. By this time Bain has so far got the upper hand that he even has a sneaking affection for the mean old devil...