Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridegroom's friends, has often cost enough to run the couple into debt for life. Chinese bankers, who have battened on such marriages for centuries, gnawed their lips in rage last week as Mayor Wu hired an elegant brass band which blared the "Wedding March" of "Foreign Devil" Mendelssohn...
...play which the Dramatic Club chose deals with the troubles of a clergyman and his wife who entertain a devil without realizing it. The form taken by the evil spirit and the situations which arise are said to be highly entertaining...
...Suddenly you hear a voice and the devil appears before you. He puts a 50^ piece in a horse track. You take the 50^ and go to the hospital and have them put it in your stomach. Then you're possessed of the devil. He's your father, and your mother. Hell will be a fine place for me." From the adjoining cells came the moaning sound of Negro prisoners chattering their prayers...
Uptown: "Devil Dogs...
More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding...