Word: deviled
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...rats turned into link ogres, late entries in The Most Belligerent Pass of the year Contest, which for years too many to count had been the stomping ground of lthaca's Lynah Loathsome. For two ECAC schools a long way from home. Princeton and Cornell you could color the devil Crimson...
There is, for example, Clare the child actress, understudying Mary Pickford in a play called A Good Little Devil...
...listened to the litany of Franklin Roosevelt's greatness. One theme in the lesson was FD.R.'s desire for results even at the expense of philosophical purity. He quoted an old Bulgarian proverb that says, "You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge...
...sounds like one of those Brechtian place names out of Mahaggony, where mysterious and sinful things occur. And its equatorial locale is primitive and threatening. Jungle encroaches almost to the doorsteps of Kourou (pop. 7,000), in French Guiana. Only a few miles offshore lies Devil's Island, once the world's most infamous penal colony, and local waters teem with piranha and alligators...
...prim persona. In her first novel, Lolly Willowes (1926), she wrote with quiet fierceness of a "genteel spinster" who chooses "to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to you by others," even if the price be a compact with the devil...