Word: deviled
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...what a woman should want . . . big diamond engagement ring, house in a good neighborhood, furniture, children, well-made clothes, furs-but she'll never say so. Because in our time those things are supposed to be stuffy and dull . . . She's Lady Brett Ashley,* with witty, devil-may-care whimsey and shocking looseness all over the place. A dismal caricature, you understand, and nothing but talk . . . To simulate Lady Brett, however, as long as she's in fashion, Shirley talks free and necks on a rigidly graduated scale . . . She can find no guidance anywhere . . . In literature...
...summer night in 1942, as Britain's Eighth Army reeled back on Cairo under the hammer blows of Rommel's Panzers, a devil-may-care Irishman employed by the BBC as a war correspondent padded out to the Pyramids on the back of a weary camel. In the far distance, the Tommies sang without a care...
...through the third game of the memorable 1951 pennant playoff with the Giants, Campy kept ducking into the dugout toilet to pray for victory. When Bobby Thomson connected for his unbelievable, game-winning home run for the New York Giants, Campy swore at the soaring ball: "Sink, you devil, sink!" He kept muttering until the ball disappeared...
...from the Crib. Now a pink and sturdy 49, Rorimer set out to become a connoisseur of art with the same care that another man might give to preparation for brain surgery or nuclear physics. Dürer's engraving of Knight, Death and Devil hung over his crib, he recalls, and "I was a wood carver before I was a Boy Scout. At nine, I took a course in arms and armor. I got two years off from prep school to visit the art centers of Europe...
...every other woman. This fable of woman's mingled love and suspicion of flattery makes one wish that Author Russell's artistic powers were up to the standard of his intelligence. The moral (for ladies only): Better be fooled by a man than put wise by the Devil...