Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand alone, his trial raged in a superheated courtroom. A defense witness accused Burkett of once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost out of sight, looked up occasionally to quote from memory long passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright Johnson, one of Texas' most...
...week's end the Legislature had not met, rich Ohio was still desperate. To a group of labor leaders, deeply conservative Republican Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland, suggested in a discouraged mood: "Labor can go to the Governor independently of the city. You can give him the devil far better than...
Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter, a Blue Devil, coming out of nowhere, blocked a Carolina punt. The ball bounded off his chest, rolled crazily toward the end zone and, before the bewildered crowd got to its feet, rolled over the goal line with a Blue Devil atop it. From that moment on, Duke played diabolical ball. They intercepted passes, smothered ballcarriers, finally scored another touchdown to shatter Carolina's dreams of the Southern Conference championship and a Bowl-game bid. Duke 13, North Carolina...
...social significance is comforting today when their football rivalry is waxing warm. But there is more than one fly in the ointment. John and the Bulldog may nod solemnly together over such a book as mill's "On Liberty," but we were afraid they would get into the very devil of a fight over Emily Post's "Etiquette." It seems that as regards a man named Browder, John and the Bulldog just can't agree on what's good taste...
...this week's show, Walter Huston, from Hollywood, wrestled through Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster; eagle-beaked Comic Jimmy Durante paid off with: "T'ank yuh, Boigess. May I call yuh Meredit'?" Much of the continuity was contributed by the U. S.'s No. 1 literary jack-in-the-box, William Saroyan. Volunteer Saroyan mailed in the last of his manuscript Friday night, forgetting Saturday was Armistice Day, a mail holiday. When Sunday came, and no Saroyan, CBS chased him down, had him re-conjure the missing paragraphs...