Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marks. Between the insult and the honor, Captain Alfred Dreyfus had endured a personal agony that included four years of solitary imprisonment on Devil's Island. Because of the injustice done him, France had gone through a dozen of the most turbulent years in its hectic history and come close to civil...
...mess with his famous l'accuse! Georges Clemenceau became a Dreyfusard; famous lawyers kept trying to reopen the case at the risk of their lives. Not until July 1906 did France's highest court throw out the pack of lies and forgeries that had sent Dreyfus to Devil's Island. By that time, Traitor Esterhazy was safe in England, where he survived to an obscure old age in a boarding house in a slum quarter of London. After Dreyfus was exonerated, he served one year, retired, then came out of retirement to fight with distinction at Chemin...
...Silliman Jr. was carefully trained by his hard-driving father. He broke in as a printer's devil at eight, sold newspapers on the street, learned to use a camera, did some reporting. At 18 he joined the Air Transport Command, became the ATC's youngest wartime pilot, landed the first U.S. transport plane in liberated Paris. After the war Silliman Jr. took over two smaller dailies then owned by the company; Both he and his brother are well aware that they must move fast to live up to their father, described in his early days...
...Angels (Paramount) began life three years ago as a modest French farce by Albert Husson; adapted by Playwrights Sam and Bella Spewack, it became a hit on Broadway, and is still running in London and Australia. Now the fable about three Devil's Island convicts who put their illegal talents to work for an inept but honest businessman turns up in VistaVision, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov...
...court found Kastner even more guilty. "When he accepted the Nazi offer to save 600 Jewish souls," said the judge, "Kastner sold his soul to the devil. Masses were sacrificed for the sake of a few. He broke his trust with Jewry. That was collaboration in the fullest sense of the word." Among the wider jury of Israel's people, the balance between the few and the many was not so easily struck. The violence of the judge's remarks redounded in a certain sympathy for Kastner. Last week, going back and forth to work in a closed...