Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Anglican bishops of England spoke of the Devil last week, and not surprisingly he turned...
Promptly prelate after prelate popped up to refute Archdeacon Dunlop-and the Devil made his presence felt by disrupting the lighting mechanism that was supposed to flash each speaker's name; instead, letters began to go on and off at random, spelling nothing. Said the dean of Windsor, the Right Rev. Eric Hamilton: "I would rather believe that...
...Devil exists than that he does not. If he does, it explains a great many almost insoluble problems." Said Canon Arthur Shepherd of Worcester: "The first tactic of the Devil is to persuade Christians that he does not exist, next to persuade them that God does not exist...
...contest, held in the ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was awarded for a scarcely disguised variation on one of the simplest of all desserts, apple dumplings. The winner, whose spicy apple twists* triumphed over such dishes as golden empire torte spread with chocolate surprise frosting, double date devil's food cake or Golden Gate dessert bars, was Mrs. Don de Vault, 36, wife of a Delaware, Ohio real estate man. Her prize...
Such an enemy is elusive, however, and it is tempting to oversimplify its agencies, seeking a ground on which organized resistance is possible. Like Ahab, these idealists want to grapple with a symbolic embodiment of pervasive evil. They find in the idea of a Communist conspiracy a suitable devil, responsible for the sins of their no-longer Jeffersonian world. States' rights form a barrier against political manifestations of this insidious movement, and traditional values become weapons against social sabotage. Integration, upsetting custom, supported by left-wingers, and enforced by centralizied national power, seems an instrument of the alien interest...