Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening in the midst of worthy tunes, songs, dances, sample any of the following: Poppy, Kid Boots, Ziegfeld Follies, Mary Jane McKane, Music Box Revue, Runnin' Wild, Sweet Little Devil, Lollipop...
Whitney Cromwell carries off highest honors in the poetry. The picture of Pan pressing his "twisted thumb against his nose" is delicious-and it is painted with well-swung movements of the brush. What is more, it is a generous relief from the devil-in-the-inkpot type of verse. Mr. Hope's "Ballad" is symbolic and severe, as much a ballad should be; but then Mr. Hope can usually be counted on to produce good work...
Sweet Little Devil. Below this strained and curiously uninviting title lies a moderately momentous musical comedy with Constance Binney. Miss Binney is a handy heroine to have around any musical comedy and she has been unaccountably neglected since she was let loose by Comstock and Gest in Oh, Lady, Lady of glorious memory. If memory serves, Miss Binney left the comparatively secure precincts of Philadelphia society to become a dancer. After demonstrating her competence as noted above, she took a dip in drama 'with 39 East and has since been distributing her efforts in celluloid form, canned...
...refusing to accept paper marks in payment of their produce, though others are compelled to do so, and are thus forcing the retailer to double and treble his prices. And the scandal is that the acuter the food crisis, the louder the execrations against the Jew, who, poor devil, is quite as badly hit as any one else; perhaps even worse; for the Jew preponderates in the professional classes here and it is the lawyer, the doctor and especially the journalist who are having the keenest struggle to keep alive...
...Devil's Disciple, by G. B. Shaw...