Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then came the dawn. Our solitary man rubbed his eyes and stretched lazily. Where the devil was he? The note caught his eye, and he read: "Meet you at the New Yorker, ten o'clock." Gentic reader, Lord forbid the reoccurrence of such a hopeless, stupid physiognomy across the face of any man! Troubles never come singly. He had three classes that very morning; he was on pro; he had exactly one dollar in his pocket, and here he was way down South in New York City. Things looked awfully ominous. He set out for the New Yorker...
Laurel and Hardy, flushed by the success of "The Devil's Brother," their first venture into light opera, have taken another plunge into musical fantasy and come up with "The Bohemian Girl," unquestionably their funniest production to date...
TUDOR GREEN-W. B. Maxwell-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Microcosmic picture of London suburbia, by an oldtime English author (The Devil's Garden, The Guarded Flame...
...this was on Sept. 15 and in Lancaster. Not until Sept. 29 did two ladies stopping at the Buccleuch Arms Hotel, Moffat, Scotland, notice, on strolling near The Devil's Beef Tub, chunks which they as ladies had no stomach to examine. In a decorous way they intimated on returning from their stroll to the Buccleuch Arms that things were not as they should be in The Devil's Beef Tub. Instantly the place was swarming with strong-stomached tourists, Scottish villagers and police inspectors. The services of Sir Bernard Spilsbury were not required. Scotland...
During the trial there was no direct evidence against Ratanji-Ruxton because nobody had seen him kill or dismember so much as a fly. The Crown produced the patched blouse in which a faceless head had been found wrapped in The Devil's Beef Tub and asked the stepmother of Mary Jane Rogerson to comment upon it as a witness before the jury. "Yes, that is the blouse," said Mrs. Rogerson. "I can tell because I put on the patch. It was an old blouse, but I bought it at a jumble sale for Mary - she had wanted...