Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americanism;" "The Moral Leper;" "The Devil's Boomerang" (for men only); "Chickens Come Home to Roost" (for men only); "What Shall the End Be?;" "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack" (anti-evolution...
...Faust" with several points of novelty. The production aims throughout to represent Goethe's poem as faithfully as Gounod's music. To this end the character of Mephistopheles has been so changed as to make him the embodiment of the negative forces of life rather than the conventional stage devil with incredible horns and tail. The apparent incongruity in the former double role of Faust is alleviated by having two artists sing the separate roles, one representing the aged philosopher, and the other the young man of the world, created by Mephistopheles, the conjurer. The role of Siebel, which...
...James Thomas, Detroit Methodist Episcopal minister, had a very pithy statement ready: "In this case I should say, the thought to be applied is, that the Lord gave it, though the devil brought it, so the league should keep...
...Sebastian Kresge resented being indirectly referred to by a Methodist Episcopal clergyman as the devil, if he felt that ingratitude should forfeit charity, he did not allow his actions to express his feelings. Instead, he presented $725,000 to the Detroit Methodist Children's Home Society, with which to build an orphanage for small children. It was to be a new and charming orphanage, with small cottages instead of wards and corridors, with married couples, when possible, to act as father and mother to children who have none of their own. This gift was accepted like the other, with...
Married. Eugene Dieudonne, recently pardoned life-term convict who escaped from Devil's Island; to his former wife who divorced him 16 years ago, at his own command, when he was first sentenced; in Paris...