Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about contemporary China, especially in the left press, he would soon come upon the name of Chen Li-fu, head of what was called the "notorious" CC clique. This Chen was presented as the embodiment of what was wrong with China; he was the villain behind the screen, the devil who wrecked all compromise and blocked all progress...
...spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London's bohemia. But Prelude never really gets going and never comes to an end, simply limping from sketch to sketch, as though even Author Kersh...
...Price Is High." Wrote one angry rice merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...
Togliatti's sinuous dialectic had been so smooth that it evoked chuckles and even admiration from his enemies. In the stunned galleries one old woman kept biting her lip and shaking her head in reluctant respect, mumbling: "He's a clever devil, he's a clever devil!" But a representative of the Vatican's Osservatore Romano gritted his teeth so hard that he lost a filling...
...chaplain to the British Embassy Church in Paris from 1921-29. Says he reminiscently: "Paris is a wonderful place, and if you've got anything in you as a chaplain it's still a wonderful place. There you really come up against the forces of the devil...