Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted observation in Texas-where observations are made at the drop of a Stetson-that all you need to stir up a devil-duster is a little bit of wind. The wind started to blow when Dallas Morning News Columnist Frank X. Tolbert allowed as how it was curious that Denison-born Dwight D. Eisenhower had given Tyler as his birthplace when he enrolled at West Point...
...began seductively to disrobe herself. And then she asked him once more, "Do you still see the vision?" "I can no longer see it. The vision has fled in bashfulness at our intimacy." "Then rejoice," cried Khadija, "for by the Lord it was an angel and no devil that you have beheld...
...everything else has greatly increased. Says Dr. McDonald K. Home Jr., chief economist of the National Cotton Council: "We need very much to invest new money in research, to do some long-range planning. The auto industry gives power steering, while we wear old shirts and look like the devil. We haven't met the test...
...fancy does not occur before Old Cock has duly delivered himself of a few well-rounded reflections on the "Socialist mob, the thieving upstarts," and stated his Weltanschauung: "Cutting the cackle, it's a bloody washout in which the baby is thrown out with the bathwater and devil take all. Talk about Rights. What Rights? Then I will tell you . . . the right of an Englishman true-born and free to get his beer and baccy, his Java, bread and scrape, plum-and-apple, cut off the joint and choice of two veg . . . good things sent in plenty from heaven...
...partnership). Projected films include The Way West, from A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel with Lancaster and probably James Stewart, Gary Cooper and Katharine Hepburn; First Love, with Audrey Hepburn, adapted by John van Druten from the Turgenyev novel; George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, with Sir Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift and Lancaster; and Bandoola, to be filmed in Ceylon with Sophia Loren...