Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprite-like voice is heard outside, then a scream. At the door, lying unconscious, is what the audience will undoubtedly deem an angel, and certain it is she looks like an angel must look, Lois Hall. Unfortunately, she turns out to be a devil, and a most perplexing devil...
...naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked at the three-foot rents in the earth and whooped, "the devil's laugh...
...beginning again to be reworked. Nineteenth Century romancers like Walter Scott and Charles Reade brought up so many tons of ore that the market for a time was overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author John Clayton...
...British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army of 550,000 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. MacDonald & Simon, though they had in effect told Chamberlain that he could go to the devil, were actually intimidated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the point of pleading with France not so much as to mention Germany by name but merely to fulminate at Geneva against treaty-breaking in general...
...York Times had his obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came the day in 1896 when Adolph Ochs, 38. heard of a chance to acquire the New York Times. To a publisher friend...