Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scourges and a hair shirt, ate mostly boiled potatoes, in general mistreated his body so that his doctor said "science could not explain how he remained alive." For 35 years, according to his account and those of his associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse: a First-Century martyr named...
...Richard's father was a shoemaker who wrote and published several volumes of verse. Born at Bristol in 1864, Richard left school at 12, became a newsboy, printer's devil, shoemaker's apprentice. He studied in his spare time, attracted the attention of Clifton College's headmaster who helped him get an education. He taught for a year, then became assistant to Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, the astronomer who discovered helium in the sun. In 1893 he joined Sir Norman on the staff of Nature, succeeded eventually to the editorial chair. As a final distinction...
Suggesting that it is best to meet the devil on his own ground, Elliott favored preparedness, and a renewal of the fighting spirit. "The defeatism in the air will kill democracy; by cracking these systems, we can save it. We don't have to accept the inevitable war on Hitler's terms...
...plot of the play was somewhat confused, but it seemed to hold t he interest of the audience, which practically filled the spacious dining room. Sir Walter Blankhound was the little devil of the play. Many of his wives, etc., did not come from official sources, yet he was looking for still more. His fortunes came to an end and in that capacity put the official stamp of approval on several marriages...
...kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is turned into a young man. But Marguerite denies he is Faust and because he cannot prove it he finally just fades away. Yes, it is rather amusing." From one of the Stein songs: "The devil what the devil do I care if the devil is there. . . . And you wanted my soul what the hell did you want my soul for how do you know I have a soul who says so nobody says so but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies...