Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Devil Horse. (Rex). Of all the animal spirits of the screen Rex is perhaps the highest. There have been so many shrewdly trained dogs that their appeal is thinning. Rex is a horse, and very few of his pictures have been released. A horse, no matter how well trained, is less flexible in pantomime than a dog. Yet a horse has an extroardinary, individual attraction that is quite irresistible. The story is as usual flimsy and absurd. Rex is shown making love to lovely mares of his acquaintance, running over leagues of attractively barren prairies, and avenging the Indians...
...petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was an aviator, Manhattan scion, grew not to perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt?" In a jazzed age no news hound delved through the reference...
...President gravely shook the gnarled hand of Henry B. Hallowell, venerable marine. He had presented 'letters from President Harding and Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler of the Marine Corps attesting that he is the oldest living "devil...
Diplomatic Contribution. Having dozed or pondered while the foreign-devil-policeman spoke, slant-eyed delegates awoke to attention when Dr. Chao-Hsin Chu, Chinese Minister to Italy, made his contribution to the proceedings: "You insult my government and I am not afraid to insult yours...
Publicist Kawashima thundered: "Like a devil, the U. S. is restraining Japan's desire for 'open doors' to America, Australia, and Africa. The U. S. not only shuts us out but encourages other nations to exclude us. Japan no longer can stand such injustice! The Japanese-U. S. war has been decreed by Heaven. We must kick the U. S.-a mortifying influence...