Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL-Rearden Conner-Morrow...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...
...roll is a long one. Choosing at random the name of Albert Wiggins of the Chase National Bank comes to mind, and then Charles Mitchell of the National City. They manipulated their funds or rather those of their depositors, with masterly insouciance and in a devil-may-care fashion that compels the admiration of the less gifted; or, shall it be admitted, the less scrupulous. Working westward, the van Sweringens and Mr. Eaton of Cleveland have lighted their little hour or two and are gone. Only a tangle of smooth tar roads and buried sewer pipes out in the hinterland...
...wear, the scanty food and few friends. Gradually his high idealism is undermined and he begins to see college as a picture of an unjust and meaningless world outside. "Forenoon" McClintock, a rapscallion fellow-roomer in Vridar's boarding house, helps to complete his disillusioning education. "Forenoon," a devil with the women, is always after Vridar to join him in his forays. But Vridar considers himself engaged to easy-going Neloa Doole at home. Besides, when he gets near a girl he begins to shake. When he hears that Neloa has been going around with other men. however...
...China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where she turned up an astounding old Russian panhandler about whom she wrote her last book, Pull Devil, Pull Baker (TIME, July...