Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightly hunted look, had to be captured by his mother and held firmly by the shoulder to be interviewed. As cryptic as a surrealist in explaining his art, Alfred said he just painted whatever popped into his head. When asked how it happened, in his painting of a devil, that the crimson body wore black tights but the horns were white, he said darkly, "Maybe he fell in the snow...
Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil by the up-to-date, scientific treatment of cracked...
Then James Prince and his followers arrived. Prince was the Basil Rathbone type-tall, hypnotic, a devil with women. "His power,'' said his wife, "is more than half in the way he affects women. . . . He's handsome and he's got magnetism and a gift of words. And he's had lots of practice." He had started a commune on a parcel of land in Virginia which the Apostle Paul assured him was the site of the Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic...
...doctors who read the report which Dr. Large and a chemist colleague. Dr. H. N. Brocklesby, published in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, it looked as though another form of diabetes relief, this time herbal, had come out of Canada. What element in the vegetable devil's-club made it apparently do the same job as the glandular product insulin was not revealed...
Insulin must be injected hypodermically because, when swallowed, it is digested and rendered impotent to reduce sugar in the blood. But Drs. Large and Brocklesby say "there is not a great deal of difference between the results of giving extract of devil's-club by mouth or syringe." Thus they premise an easier and possibly a cheaper life for diabetics, who must forever take medication...