Word: deviled
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...poor showing seemed to portend a lack of fervor toward the states' rights cause. "We must not," Byrd warned, "be lulled into a sense of false security if there is some delay in taking up these [civil rights] bills," which he called a "devil's brew." As his tie, ablaze with a Stars & Bars design, fluttered in the wet breeze, Byrd charged Truman with trying to "usurp state police power" by setting up a special FBI for the South, and with following "the primrose path to socialism...
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Stagg was in Leh, the ancient capital of Tibet. He quickly went to London to join his regiment, the "Devil's Own" (Inns of Court) Squadron, which was recruited chiefly among lawyers, but he was too old for active service. The Foreign Office sent him instead to Havana as Honorary Attache, under Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes. He was in Cuba for a year and spent the rest of the war in Bogata, assigned to "confidential operations...
...Harvard captain politely asked the McGill captain what the devil they were playing...
...moving there by choice does not appease her-better, as she sees it, to yawn in Heaven than revel in Hell. This, she is told, is not the fashionable view: Heaven is so dull that almost no one but the English can endure it. Hell, run by an urbane Devil who is as eager to please as a resort-hotel proprietor, is itself a kind of resort, full of animal enjoyments for no longer flesh-bound escapists...
...coil and spring like creatures of melodrama. There are drawbacks to the performers, too: Charles Boyer's decided French accent and Charles Laughton's occasional tendency to ham. But in general, the quartet offers fine ensemble playing, with Boyer a magnetic Juan, Laughton a suavely smiling Devil...