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Word: deviling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted him to be charmingly wicked but to disgust him with the pleasant sins of life by throwing them at his head?a plot of which Alice had been cognizant from the first. The honest people were rogues, the scandalous ones merely natural? so he promptly went to the devil with supple Zimbule O'Grady and felt much better. In fact the tale ends with Harold on the way to becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Bow-Boy* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies) is the only young American with any semblance of a reputation. Roland Young's glorious portrayal of General Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciples, now running in Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: A Hero Shortage | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...courage of Mr. Couzens, who fears not even the Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jul. 16, 1923 | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...mind to run next year, the attitude of the Anti-Saloon League has pushed me a long way toward an affirmative decision. .... The Anti-Saloon League is a powerful organization. It raises hundreds of millions of dollars to bulldoze Representatives and Senators into carrying out their will. The Devil also has a big organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Worse Than Tea | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE - Theatre Guild revival of one of Shaw's early comedies that shows the Devil not so black as other people paint him. Roland Young remarkable as the only British general in history with a sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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