Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek and Greek and more Greek until I just couldn't stand it any more, so I ups to the principal and says, "I can't do this stuff, I never wanted to, and still don't and never will. I quit this school right now, and to the devil with...
Again Christofersen. Exactly 20 years ago the late Silas Christofersen, early dare-devil flyer of the West, flew a flimsy home-made plane off the roof of Portland, Ore.'s Multonomah Hotel. Last week his widow left Seattle to salvage by plane a fur ship abandoned off Point Barrow, Alaska...
...fleeting implication, Mr. Barry would have you believe that Tom's marriage undermines his integrity. He takes to issuing cheap books, stops seeing the old crowd. Just as the World, the Flesh, the Devil and his pomps are about to submerge Tom forever, almost inexplicably he rebels. For this rebellion Playwright Barry has contrived a convincing scene and setting...
...Devil Passes? Having already been privileged to watch a jolly, wobble-headed God perform in the Theatre Guild's He this season, and having chosen to neglect Him after a brief run, Manhattan theatregoers may now witness the Devil walking the earth like a natural man. The Old Harry in the latest offering of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Springtime for Henry, Mrs. Moonlight} is none other than matinee idolized Basil Rathbone. Christened facetiously Rev. Nicholas Lucy, Mr. Rathbone has been sent among mortals by Playwright Levy to tempt them, and in so tempting to demonstrate that the practice of virtue...
...Macbeth, and with the author, whom he provides with an unpublished novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Lucy prepares to offer them all their hearts' desires?at the price of shame. He even convinces the host's mistress that she is in love with him. Labored conclusion of The Devil Passes: people behave decently because something, perhaps God, makes them do so. Naturally, the superior portion of Playwright Levy's comedy occurs prior to the final section in which he has to cap his towering allegory...