Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today. This is the age when everyone must cultivate "self-expression" through the mail if possible, --and everyone prefers to cultivate it out loud. And the worst of it is that, even in advocating attence, there must be more words, and more work for the "printer's devil...
...thirteenth century waged hotly contented theological battles through the monasteries on the number of angles who could dance on the point of a needle or the physical relation of Hell to Heaven the proposed canonization of a pious son of he Church always required the appointment of a "devil's advocate" to take up the verbal cudgels for the unpopular side of the argument. This until the connotation changes, will be much the position of the Conservative wing of the newly formed Harvard Debating Union. The present generation shied at the word conservative as a skittish horse from a piece...
...banks; every thing is just as usual save for the occasional memorial services, and the incidental celebrations like that at the stadium between the halves. America is rapidly forgetting the days of the war; and returning to her old policy of "every man for himself and the devil take the hindermost...
...wept Anna, "the little devil Vodka," and she put her arms about great Maria and kissed her sorrowfully on the third button of her great warm vorotneke...
...button on the tail of Prince Michael's coat in order to help him through the door. And the long night was short and the cold night was warm to Lenin and Trotzky, because of the devilish little saint made of rye and barley and potatoes, the saintly little devil that trickles down one's throat and into one's stomach 'and so on,--Vodka...