Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyon was no mere horseshoe man; he had a devil of a way with all sorts of ironwork, including intricate locks. Once he was commissioned to build a strongbox and did the job with customary thoroughness. Being disappointed in his fee, Lyon snapped the box shut. Since no one else could reopen it, the box stayed shut until Lyon got double pay. Lyon's growing reputation finally got him into trouble. A Philadelphia bank had been robbed, and people said nobody could have got past its locks and bars except Blacksmith Lyon, who had recently repaired them. Protesting manfully...
...Devil's Work. When night fell, 261 miners were still entombed. Perhaps that first day some still clung to life in small holes and alcoves, somehow fending off the flames, floods and noxious gases from the fires high above them. No one knew. Above ground, great searchlights showed up huddles of women now too tired to weep, their babies asleep with their toys. "Coal Mining! Not even the devil would do it!" one old man croaked hoarsely, when morning broke once more across Belgium's Bitter Heart...
...scandalous, rejectable and forbidden if girls do not wear bloomers reaching below their knees . . . Finally, instruct the faithful that nudism in all its forms is the devilish effort of paganism, that the spirit of the Gospel never will be reconciled to the lying, hypocritical stratagems of the world, the devil and the flesh...
...DEVIL IN PARADISE (128 pp.)-Henry Miller-New American Library...
...three leads, Margaret, Faust, and Mephistopheles, make the most of their lines and play beautifully together. The brilliance of Frederick Warriner as Mephistopheles stood out like a sizzling fire cracker. He played a green and sparkling devil of serpentine grace and satanic power. A superb mime, Warriner walked the tightrope of maintaining himself as both a loathsome creature and a dilettante of debonair charm. He did not falter. The quiet, brooding force of Robert Evans acted as a good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances...