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...sales to an alltime dollar peak of $63 billion. In civilian politics there was room to swing many a cat. Strikes, political revolts, administrative squabbles, and all the luxurious bickerings of individuals testified to the lack of war pressure. In fact, war tensions seemed only to have increased the devil-take-the-hindmost attitude. Advertising space was so spangled with waving "E" pennants that it looked like a crowd coming away from a football game...
...What the devil do you want them for?", asked Lieut. Pershing...
...shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with his face hard and his uniform immaculate. Others remembered him as "that sonuvabitch [who] roared past our column in his big staff car, spattering every one of us with mud and water from head to foot." He traced the successive...
...Faith in the Devil. Church attendance was obligatory for members of the royal household. "One Sunday the minister [at Balmoral], Mr. MacGregor. preached on the devil. Afterwards he asked Princess Louise whether the Queen liked his sermon. 'She said she ... should think not, as the Queen did not altogether believe in the devil.' " Said the Rev. Mr. MacGregor: "Puir body." Even more amusing is the story of wealthy, eccentric
...Heaven Can Wait" begins promisingly with a weirdly effective modernistic setting of the lower world, with a really handsome devil of a devil. But then, just as the billboards warned, Don Ameche enters, cleverly disguised as an old man, but we knew him anyhow. From there on, the picture is one long series of flashbacks of our fallen hero's naughty, naughty affairs with Women...