Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial centres would doubtless do except for the numerous disadvantages which nonmembership imposes. Believing that the only hope for the success of deposit guarantee is that the Federal Government may be able to force bankers to be not only good but wise, commercial bankers found themselves standing between the Devil and Deposit Guarantee...
...advertisement describing the efforts of a Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...
...prop from out his belly-o. They sewed him in his uniform, And sent him home to Nelly-o, Crashed plumb to jelly-o- Don't lose your flying speed! He did a bank at ninety feet, It was a kinda foolish thing, And now he is the devil's meat, Or listenin' to the angels sing,- Try to get some altitude! He kicked his rudder right around, When landing cross wind to the breeze, And much to his surprise he found, He had an engine on his knees- Land 'em straight and land up slow...
...actually increased the volume of his business. From across the sea came reports that in 1932 more Spanish, Mexican and South American senors had called up their black-eyed senoritas than at any time during the previous year. Even Shanghai Chinese were growing increasingly fond of the wired black devil. I. T. & T. finished the year with 4.4% more telephones than it had in 1931. Plainly Sosthenes Behn had a solid footing for his Ericsson deal. And last week came another evidence of I. T. & T.'s vitality: a new radiotelegraph circuit between San Francisco and China...
...horning, shivaree, skimmelton, skimmington, warming, housewarming, sendoff, rouser, jamboree, waking-up, bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely...