Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Staff of the French Army, discovering that someone has been selling military secrets to Germany, looks around for a scapegoat, finds one in Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut), the only Jew on the General Staff. Dreyfus is tried, convicted on built-up evidence, degraded and sent to Devil's Island...
...catfish." He had a razor-edged, eight-foot harpoon prepared. In Washington, the Bureau of Fisheries said it might be an alligator gar, which reputedly grows, sometimes, to be 20 ft. long. Other guesses: water-logged tree trunk, sunken barge, eruption of subterranean gases throwing up leaf accumulation, devil fish, sturgeon, or Old Blue, the legendary giant catfish of the Mississippi who every so often gets stuck in a canal lock or nudges in the bottom of a barge. As Diver Brown prepared for his first descent, Newport called an unofficial holiday. Lining the shore were hundreds...
...wrote his first musicomedy, La La Lucille. The same year he brought out his first hit song Swanee which sold 2,250,000 Victrola records. From 1920 to 1924 he wrote the music for George White's Scandals. The Astaires danced to his Our Nell, Sweet Little Devil, Lady Be Good! From hit shows like Stop Flirting, Primrose, Rainbow, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time and inclination...
...splash of headlines by coining the word "over-weather." Theory was that at 35,000 ft. it was always clear, always calm, all winds were steady. That this was not entirely the case was presently proved by TWA's crack Test-Pilot Daniel W. ("Tommy") Tomlinson. Burly and devil-may-care, he learned his flying in the Navy's celebrated acrobatic-team of Sea Hawks, of whom he is the sole survivor. Known as "Indian Joe" to the fleet, Tomlinson would stunt at night with lights out so officers could not see him. Eventually his gallivanting...
...spends his nights, but there's a night club next door. Tomas sometimes sits in the doorway to the Commercial office, facing the elevators; other times, he perches on the counter under the sign reading "Complaints." When an irate subscriber comes up to the counter to raise the devil about something, Tomas arches his back and rubs up against the fellow's shoulder, purring amiably. He knows by experience that it goes far to take the edge off the subscriber...