Word: devilish
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...Austria. Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, and now in Finland, Adolf Hitler had managed with devilish cunning to give his western opponents no place to lay a hand on him. Their chosen strategy for the past six months had perforce been tenacity-hang on, if unable to smoke him out, starve him out. Had the time now come for audacity? Such was the questioning mood, gloomy yet determined, uneasy though defiant, that was rapidly developing in the Allied countries early this week. And just at that point Adolf Hitler, that gifted diplomatic poker player with a hand full of jokers, raised...
...give devilish-witted Prof. Thomas Reed Powell his just due, the crack originated thus: Justice Holmes (reading decision): "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Prof. Powell (adding thereto in the Virginia Law Review, June 1931): "Mr. Justice Butler dissents...
Last week England's great Cartoonist David Low returned for the third time to gaze his fill at an art exhibition in London. What fascinated him was not the work of any contemporary, but 317 devilish clever and prodigiously scurrilous drawings, French and English, from the Great Age of Caricature-1750 to 1850. A bit of hands-across-the-sea, this show was timed by its sponsors, the Anglo-French Art & Travel Society, to coincide with Anglo-French political rapprochement, as a similar show of English caricatures in Paris last spring anticipated the visit of the King & Queen (TIME...
...Japanese, who had been pushing along the railroad toward Chengchow, hoping to make it a base for their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback. Tokyo papers at once accused the devilish Chinese of having sprung the dikes as a strategic military move. "An atrocity," cried Damei, "by barbarian Chinese. . . . The Japanese are making frantic efforts to check the flow and to rescue the Chinese caught in the flood area, at the same time repulsing Chinese attacks...
...last day dawned dark and dripping, with the wind whipping higher every hour, the kind of weather in which U. S. professionals like to play bridge or write their memoirs. Carnoustie was now at its most devilish, the greens so waterlogged they had to be swept off with long canes, the footing so treacherous that a man could scarcely swing. One by one the U. S. professionals bogged down miserably. Dudley hooked consistently, fell back with a 78 in the morning round. Hagen was stuck with 80, Shute with 76. Only young Byron Nelson and Charles Lacey, British by birth...