Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Oil painting by Birney Lettick. The constellation shining in the night sky is Aquarius. Drawn in the sand is the I Ching symbol for "Inner Truth." The crystal ball is a standard prop for clairvoyants; the Tarot cards are those for the devil and the sun. The palmist's hand shows the zodiacal signs...
...chose bizarre subjects--tigers, vagabonds, and birds of prey--to dance among the shadows of their backgrounds. Since prints are designed to be reproduced and sold the artists tempted the pre-photographic public with the sentimental or the grotesque. In a lithopraph by Gelestin Nateuil, titled "Daughters of the Devil," three bonnetted damsels appear to be having a typical Jane Austen chat except that a gargoyle, silhouetted agaisnt a full moon, hovers behind a tree...
...bear the full cost of repairing the mess, and instituted "Operation Sea Sweep." The company sent a huge cleaning contraption into the slick. Powered by tug, the V-shaped strainer-250 ft. across-skims the surface, and deposits oil in a barge. Trouble was, the swells constantly interrupted the devil's labor...
...protest against the use of the term "Hong Kong" flu [Jan. 31]. The crown colony was the first victim, not the originator, of the epidemic. The virus was clearly manufactured in the secret mainland laboratories of China, probably under the malevolent supervision of Sax Rohmer's archfiend, the Devil Doctor himself...
...accidentally) his friend Faber with strychnine. His wife runs off with his agent. His entire work is stolen. Reveries then turn into nightmares, and he goes completely mad. Summing up, he cries out, "I've been thwarted by an angel, duped by God and stalked by the Devil. Who would believe such things could happen in Boston...