Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed signs of diabetes. The physician, Dr. Richard Geddes Large, promptly dosed the man with insulin and asked him what he had been taking all these years in its place. The man said it was an infusion in hot water of the root of a spiny, prickly shrub called devil's-club (Echinopanax horridus). British Columbia Indians take potions of devil's-club for whatever ails them...
...mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph. If he has been convicted of treason, he will probably be sent to live in a hut on the most famous of this trio of islands-the 34-acre, bleak Il du Diable, or Devil's Island. Not more than 25 traitors to France have generally inhabited Devil's Island at one time. Currently only five or six exiles live on the island. So publicized was the case of the first prisoner on Devil's Island, the martyred Captain Alfred Dreyfus, that...
Because of swift currents and shark-infested waters, escape from Devil's Island-until 1895 a leper colony-is considered impossible, has never succeeded. From the mainland, however, escape in Small open canoes down the river, across mudbanks, finally to some distant friendly shore is not only possible but, judging from the number of successful attempts, a rigorous yet comparatively easy undertaking...
...nearest spot for convicts to head for is British-owned Trinidad, 600 miles from St. Laurent, where escaped convicts are now fed, hospitalized, sent on their way, treated like shipwrecked mariners. Althougn Britain and France have signed an extradition treaty, Trinidad Judge Charles Greenidge virtually nullified the treaty for Devil's Island criminals by freeing 13 escaped convicts on the almost impossible-to-fulfill technicality that extradition papers with full descriptions had to originate from the men's place of conviction, that French officials wanting to extradite men had to present strict evidence of where the crime took...
...Minor devil is James Arthur Currigan Luckypenny, middle-aged accountant in a big London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible...