Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some take the boat or train or plane or what have you for the "Sunny South" and come back looking bronzed and fit like a tycoon. We tried this on a time but frankly found it wanting. First, the Gulf Stream was rougher than the Channel or the Devil's Hole, and the ships must be small to get into Bermuda's harbor. When the sea starts bristling, it does something to the pit of our stomach. Second, we baked our back on the beach the first day, cooked it so fine you could have sold it to the Union...
...lifeguard on the prow of the nearer launch dove as the body appeared, floating head down in the water like a rug over a clothesline. Rescued and aboard the launch the dare-devil diver regained consciousness, complained of chills. Then he discovered that his back was broken, his body paralyzed from the waist down. With him in the boat were his wife, his mother, the lifeguard, and reporters and photographers from the San Francisco Examiner. There was no doctor. Bad enough-but then the launch's engine refused to start...
...does it before your eyes: "Do not bother me about leaflets: I am not a machine and cannot work in the present disgraceful situation. . . . For Christ's sake do understand. . . . Unforgivable and shameful . . . simply a disgrace and death to the cause! . . . Yet here you are busy with the devil knows what kind of dirty business! ... If we don't break with the Central Committee and with the Council, then we shall only be worthy of being spat at." When he knows he is right he never stops saying so until he gets his way: "Again and again...
...Manhattan, Director George Cukor described the kind of girl he was looking for to play Scarlett O'Hara in the cinema version of Gone With The Wind which he will direct for Selznick International. "The girl I select," said he, "must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless." Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins...
Paul Moscou, who pleaded guilty before the trial was so thoroughly disreputable that even Mason's attorney declared: "When Moscou walked across the threshold ... it might just as well have been the devil himself. He spread his own personal corruption upon everyone who had the misfortune to have been in his presence...