Word: deviled
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...sisters were always losing their jobs, or never getting jobs. He had just lost his last one, had a brother at work who was unaccountably registered in another district. Both brothers were drafted the same day, leaving the family without steady support. The Rev. Mr. Gruman felt like the devil, could do nothing about...
...winged opponent in the contest over Little Joe's destination after death, the Laws's General himself, is sung and acted, with the experienced touch of Todd Duncan. Little Joe, the wayward, crap-shooting husband of Petunia and object of the struggle between the Lawd and the Devil, is a happy-go-lucky masterpiece in the hands of Dooley Wilson. Katherine Dunhan heats up the atmosphere with every step as Georgia Brown, a Dixieland Danger who makes Little Joe forget the Devil. When she and her troupe dance the Egyptian Ballet, stoking boilers in Hades for eternity somehow loses...
...Ballet Theatre made its grand jete (soaring leap), into Manhattan a year ago. Last week it began its second Manhattan season, none too well-heeled, but hopeful of an extended engagement at the Majestic Theatre. Besides Gala Performance, it had some other new ballets: Three Virgins and a Devil (by Agnes de Mille), a Daliesque-Italian-primitive trifle in which a monkey-like Satan deftly garners three damsels; an enlarged version of Billy the Kid (by Eugene Loring, with music by Aaron Copland), a rich, loamy piece of Americana; Pas de Quatre (Anton Dolin), reconstructing the performance which the four...
...striped paw of Tammany, which ordinarily shuns inquiries as the devil shuns holy water, has guided a committee of Manhattan's City Council in an investigation of the local Civil Service. Designed to make Fiorello LaGuardia look bad in case he runs for mayor again, the investigation has prowled leisurely along, centring its initial snooping on the affairs of the city-owned station WNYC. Last week the probers unearthed one Alexander Leftwich Jr., who claimed he had been fired as assistant in WNYC's dramatic department for refusing to produce a show that was "red as hell." Replied...
...South Side Chicago Republican politician, and, as a leading ornament of McGarry's famous saloon at Dearborn & Madison, the original "Hennessy"-the constant companion and audience for Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley"; in Chicago. Hennessy, for example, once observed that the country was going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate an' has got no nearer than it is, thin...