Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against him; the $7,500 slander suit his secretary, Miss Ethelyn Crane, won against him; the 1? verdict he was awarded in a breach of promise suit against Miss Crane; his desire to be the "dare-devil aviator of Congress" and his purchase of many an old Army plane that would...
...credo says that rich school children are inclined to be lazy, impertinent to their teachers, and that they make less of their opportunities than their less advantaged classmates. Liberal-minded folk usually discount this tenet, refusing to believe that the devil plays checkers exclusively on the coattails of affluent youngsters. But statistics published last week by School & Society appeared to support the credo...
Significance. Washington Republicans put Senator Wesley Jones (coauthor of the Five & Ten law) between a political devil and a deep sea of wet voters...
...record of Representative Edgar Howard of the Third Nebraska District is as follows : Born: at Osceola, Iowa, Sept. 16, 1858. Start in life: a printer's devil. Career: aged 13, he went to work in a printshop at Glenwood, Iowa. He went to public school, worked his way through Western Collegiate Institute, attended Iowa College of Law. He became a tramp printer, a wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave...
...first their optimism was justified, but propinquity without possession grew more and more poignant. When two correct visitors from the outside world arrived, the situation came to a head, there was the devil to pay. Eventually, with the help of two fistfights, an attempted suicide, two engagements and a marriage, the tangle unwound itself...