Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room (Abraham Lincoln's) in the White House. His health has never been robust and during the 1932 campaign when he worked day & night and slept in his clothes, he lost 32 lb. He takes stairs slowly and detective stories as relief from insomnia, and his old devil, indigestion, which confines him to the slenderest diet, has sapped his vitality in recent months. After his long summer holiday, he was back in Washington last week feeling so much better that he ordered the couch on which he used to lie in his old office removed from his new office...
...Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...
...twelve long Republican years Andrew William Mellon was almost a saint to his party. By last week, however, the Democratic Administration in Washington was rapidly making this 79-year-old Pittsburgher over into an Old Deal devil...
...natural revolt from the overly-strict Calvinist doctrines of the Puritans that was responsible for the growth of a sect which was nearly successful in gaining control of the legislature. On that control rested the fate of Harvard, for learning was a thing to be abhorred as from the Devil. It could only lead to confusion, and, never having heard of Gertrude Stein, believed that the only way to avoid confusion and gain the truth was to have revelations from...
...close vote the Conservatives were placed in power and immediately banished Mrs. Hutchinson to Rhode Island to commune with the Devil and the Indians, and then took up the unfinished business of erecting a building for the college which had been voted two years previously...