Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bless my stars he works "only eight hours a day", he has "money to burn", he "throws to the winds his money and himself". Now I ask you, where in the devil do we get the right to pass such a judgement on a chap who, if nothing else, is at least a producer How many hours a day do we actually work--if mastering usless data that we take care to forget as quickly as possible can be called work? And how do most of us spend our leisure time which the working youth ought to consecrate...
...fine gentlemen, it is not we who should object to their "foot-loose, devil-may-care attitude". If they took an example from us they would throw up their jobs and loaf all day instead of a few hours. How does the bible put it? Pluck the mote out of your own eye first, or something like that. I don't know. I have been too busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it. EDWIN SEAVER...
...course this is no panacea. Some people will not assimilate culture, no matter how much of it you cram down their throats. But it cannot be gainsaid that for most of these youthful workers, a little background will help tone down the foot-loose, devil-may-care attitude which is a danger to society. It will help them to realize that civilization did not all come about by a lucky accident and that they must give at least a little of themselves towards carrying...
...feels it knows all the things anybody could know that nobody really ought to know: that virtues, civic or otherwise, are the badge of the hay-stacks: that it is big enough and powerful enough and well heeled enough and enough of a wise guy to go to the devil more times than anybody else and still survive to take pride in the achievement. The slick ness and unctuousness of Mayor Hylan, one may presume, appeal to New York as so cordially representative of its own shrewdness and unmorality as to make their exaltation through him a fitting rebuke...
...cosmetics, head-decorations, fans and jewelry. It is, indeed, an alarming situation when our twentieth-century debutante comes out arrayed like a South Sea Island savage", says President Murphy of the University of Florida: "The low-cut gowns, the rolled hose and short skirts are born of the Devil and his angels, and are carrying the present and future generations to social chaos and destruction...