Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, although it could be taken earlier or later. From the college a student would pass into one of four university divisions to specialize for his degree (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930). When the system was put into operation last autumn many faculty members looked forward to ''a devil of a mess." Last fortnight President Hutchins made a speech to the first freshman class that has worked under the new plan. Said he: "You have made a very creditable adjustment to the new situation. You have faced a new system. . . .Believe me when I say it has been worth...
...Meantime Thayer has discovered that Paros is a pretender to the Greek throne, the idolized head of a world-wide Society which is gradually getting Greece under its control. Thayer becomes Paros' henchman, surrenders his wife, sinks himself in the Society's work. Eventually, a mere devil for organization, he makes Paros Emperor of the U. S., himself takes the omnipotent job of Attorney General. Then he has a series of field-days working off old grudges, boosting what he regards as worthy objects. Prohibition is immediately repealed. Taking a tip from the noble experiment, Thayer revivifies...
...have made me appear a somewhat blatant devil-may-care individual who keeps one eye cocked on the bottle, without much regard for law and order. This I hope is quite foreign to my nature and is not, I am sure, the opinion of my constituents...
...inquiry as to "sanctity, virtues and miracles"-was instituted by Most Rev. Edward Joseph Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin. Postulator, to promote the cause in Rome, is Rt. Rev. Monsignor Michael Curran, vice rector of the Irish College in Rome. Promoter of the Faith in the case (in vulgate, the "Devil's Advocate") is Rt. Rev. Monsignor Michael Cronin of Rathgar, Dublin...
...Devil's Host is a mystery play which will give no one high blood pressure. It has to do with nine guests, strangers to each other, who are introduced and imprisoned in the home of M. Duvall. At the proper moment. M. Duvall parts the portieres and emerges with the announcement that he is His Satanic Majesty, come to purge all present of his or her sins. He knows all about everybody's past, so much, in fact, that at the end of Act II one of the characters shoots him. But gunfire cannot kill the Old Harry...