Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, one flesh and one devil which we must combat or flee. Today there are many--many at least in appearances; one devil at the bottom of them all, perhaps, if your theology inclines you so to state the case of man's ever-recurring ills. Each worlds has its own formulas, its own incantations, its own tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing...
...52nd day of his fast,+ Jackson Whitlow, after hearing what he said was the Devil's voice "temptin' me on every hand," thought he heard God telling him to "take a little wine for thy stomach's sake." His wife scurried out for elderberry wine, fed him a few spoonfuls. A second message from the Lord recommended orange juice. Finally, said Jackson Whitlow, the Lord prescribed squirrel soup and beef tea, which his doctor approved and supplemented with whey and more orange juice. Said Jackson Whitlow: "The Lord's divine purpose has not been revealed...
...DREYFUS CASE-Albert and Pierre Dreyfus-Edited by Donald C. McKay- Yale University Press ($3.75). Vivid record of the 19th Century cause celebre; contains a detailed account by his son of Dreyfus' four-year imprisonment on Devil's Island, an unpublished memoir by Captain Dreyfus covering the period from his second conviction (1899) to his acquittal in 1906, together with numerous letters from prominent Dreyfus partisans...
Felix, Count von Luckner, famed Wartime sea raider, sailed from Stettin, Germany in the schooner Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") on a two-year, 16,000-mi. world cruise "not after ships, but out to capture hearts for Germany...
...Devil's Playground" is all about how a naval officer marries a no-good woman, punches his best friend on the jaw when he finds him kissing her, decides to let the man suffocate when he sinks to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine, since he alone in all the navy can dive deep enough to rescue him, but goes and fetches him up at the very last minute, when he learns what a wicked siren he is married to. There is no objection to the familiarity of these elements; one might only wish that they were joined...