Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME and scatter them broadside among his friends and relations. He will even give one to each of his mother-in-laws. Ah! How great he will be. All the people who are so fortunate as to know him will look up to him as an author or a devil or something...
...Lombardo killing was retaliation for the death, two months ago of Frankie Uale (Yale), Brooklyn gangster (TIME, July 9). But, as in some 215 other Chicago murders during the past two years, no conviction was probable. Chicago police philosophy is to let the thugs shoot each other up and devil take the hindmost innocent bystander...
...were the 12-year-old twins-Terry, a wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel. The rest were the "steps" (stepchildren) - Zinnie, orange-haired little devil with a fiery temperament and exaggerated acquisitive instinct; Beechy and Bun, Italian brother and sister, the one with a tendency toward acrobatics, the other toward hysterics...
...Devil worshippers were glad: The Roerichs found a Buddhism twisted topsy-turvy, the black faith of Bon Po. They worship demons, hate Buddhists, have their peculiar saints with a central, legendary protector similar to Buddha. The swastika is one of their symbols...
...come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night clubs" and the presidential campaign. Can it be that he is afraid to come to New York, as I have heard? I do not like to think that "Billy" Sunday would be afraid to meet the devil in his stamping-ground, New York, and yet it has been so long since he has been here that I would like to know the reason he has stayed away. It would be a good idea to have him debate with Al Smith and if he said he would, he would...