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Word: deviled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted to the Inspector-Gen-eral's wife, proud Dona Ysabel, and was given the job of guarding her only son. Dona Ysabel's family motto appealed to him: "We fear no King, nor any devil; only God when He is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old California | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians. In the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Arrest of a Hero | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...DEVIL'S DEN-Lawrence Saunders -Covici, Friede ($2). Murder in Connecticut's swank art colony; investigation by ex-Fireman Lundberg and friend stirs up scandal but exposes the criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...news at least; so I am confident that all your foreign news must be of the same level. Myself, I am a glutton for reading books, papers, magazines, nothing comes amiss. To me, but for its size, I've never come across a magazine which takes such a devil of a lot of reading, and you simply can't skip any. But what surprises me most is the circulation. A magazine the exact counterpart of yours published in London would have a circulation of three-quarters of a million in next to no time. I have always taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...back under the banner "Narratage," "Narratage," however, is more than stunt; it is a diabolical infliction. Henry, Caspar Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth the camera follows, watching urchin Tom Garner high diving into a rocky bottom, president Tom Garner buying up rusty railroads, husband Tom Garner sweating out, for his wife, the tale of his new love...

Author: By J. M., | Title: "THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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