Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universally deplored fact that although radio is fast approaching technical perfection, the level of material sent through this new medium is despicably low. Chiefly because of restrictions imposed by advertisers, radio to date has produced few programs of any cultural value whatsoever. To give the devil his due, classical music has never before been so widely disseminated, but in general, program directors seem to assume, a priori, that the average listener's intelligence is little above the ten-year age level. As a result instead of making even a feeble effort to improve the average mind, the guiding hands...
...TIME, Feb. 27 you have an article on the dog show of the Westminster Kennel Club and under the picture of the best dog the cap tion, "Mr. Thomas couldn't touch the devil." In fairness to the breed of Doberman Pinschers . . . I would like to state a few reasons why Mr. Thomas couldn't touch Ferry...
With Edgar Wallace's background, an other writer might have been deflected from money-making by social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...
...remind me of the opponents of the rail-roads in the 1830's: they too thought that this new invention was nothing but a curse, an evil contrived by the devil himself. They feared that the cows would give sour milk, that the hens would either not lay or else lay hard-boiled eggs. The same attitude prevailed when street-cars and trolleys came into widespread...
...artistic taste from the sound advice of the late William Glackens (TIME, Dec. 26), from persistent study and from the inquisitive philosophy of his friend John Dewey (see p. 56). White-headed, black-browed Dr. Barnes got his temper, according to his enemies, from the devil himself. Those who have offended him the full-blooded doctor has often publicly kicked in the teeth, with obstreperous rhetoric. In 1937 it was the Pennsylvania Museum, for buying what the doctor considered a fifth-rate Cezanne (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Now revealed in more dignified terms (thanks, possibly, to Collaborator de Mazia...