Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funeral chants, and, at the other end of the scale, the futuristic rhythms of the band, but there is Porgy's sudden turn from prose recitation into a chant as he speaks early in the play, and Serena's prayer for the delirious Bess to Jesus, to "send the devil out of her like you used to do," with the rising refrain of "time and time again!" in which the others gradually join...
...Squirrel," "sunbeam," "little devil." These were some of the diminutives which were supposed to distinguish the saucy, small-voiced Fritzi from the big-chested titans of the opera. But diminutives did her no more harm than the rumored tiffs with Sembrich and Emma Fames, whose ears she claimed to have boxed. Instead they brought her a vogue all her own. After three years at the Metropolitan, Charles Dillingham offered her the then fabulous sum of $1,000 a week, a company of her own and roles made to order. Immediately, and despite the objections of her new husband, Baron...
...very long ago a friend of mine- one of that fine, hearty type who believes in being a Yale man and shaming the devil-told me his troubles. He was far from satisfied with the way things were going presently at New Haven, or, for that matter, at any of the American colleges. We were all in a bad way. He had no particular criticism to make of the teaching; this did not greatly interest him. 'But undergraduates,' he held-and on this point he was positive-'are not the men they used...
...While the men sat immovable and the women wailed amens, he cried under the bright morning sun: "This is one of the most saddest times I ever have witnessed. It is a cloudy day today down in our hearts. . . . "Here lies four people dead; hits an awful pity. The Devil's come into the world and confused the people. Think of it-blood of our blood, bone of our bone, our own Caucasian race of God Almighty's children. And I want to say, if you believe as Jesus
...piping and dancing contests. Among them were kilted Lieutenant-Governor Robert Randolph Bruce of British Columbia and William Egbert of Alberta, and the Rev. Charles William Gordon (Ralph Connor), Canadian Novelist author of The Sky Pilot, To Him that Hath, who conducted an open air religious service at Lake Devil's Cauldron. Some of last week's events were...