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Word: deviling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...globe with his heart in his mouth, preaching salvation, singing "Where He leads me I will follow," converting thousands. In South Africa after the Boer War, Negroes and white men quivered and rose in common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During the World War, he worked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heart in Mouth | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...obscene literature." "The place for a woman's body to be denuded is in the privacy of her own apartments with the blinds down." "Jesus was never moved from the path of duty however hard by public opinion. Why should I be?" "I believe that there is a Devil." "Counsellor Spencer tried to show that I sought a fat office in Washington. But I could triumph over them all. I said, 'No sir, I did not seek a fat office.'" "The closer art keeps to morality the higher is its grade." "Stood on barracks and looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Devil In The Cheese?Gentle romance of a girl's dreamlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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