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Rash Priest. Father Urbain Grandier, the center of the disturbance, looked for all the world like "a fleshier, not unamiable and only slightly less intelligent Mephistopheles in clerical fancy dress." Since his arrival at Loudun in 1617, he had fully exploited his devilish good looks. He not only made himself free with scullery trulls and upstairs maids; he also abused the confessional and other sacred precincts, it was said, with docile ladies of the parish. He had even taken a rich "wife," though his enemies had difficulty in proving it, because Grandier himself had served as both priest and bridegroom...
...Early Arrivals. For their own men, the Reds evidently expected a rough, slow trip over the loo-mile road from Pyongyang to Kaesong. The road was muddy, and cratered from innumerable allied air attacks, and it had been bountifully strewn with "tetrahedrons"-devilish little four-pointed gadgets of cast iron which always keep one sharp point up, no matter how they fall, to puncture tires.* Obviously eager to be the first on the scene, the Communists announced that they proposed to leave Pyongyang the day before the Kaesong meeting in a convoy of five jeeps and five trucks bearing white...
...programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...
...sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed three Masses to foil Duvallon's pursuer-one in St. Peter's, one in Notre Dame, and one in Bessans' village...
...rage is usually supplanted by a mood of hilarity and revivified cunning. When the pro-Republican Pittsburgh Press protested that his venal, pompous and reactionary politico, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, was a calculated libel on the reputation of the U.S. Senate, Capp had a soft and devilish answer. He replied that he knew nothing of politics but what he read in the Pittsburgh Press, that Phogbound had been suggested by that newspaper's editorial attacks on Democratic politicians, and that he was not only hurt but genuinely amazed to find the Press damning instead of applauding his creation...