Word: devilish
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...instil into a child's mind a militaristic spirit. Therefore the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom wishes to do away with war toys. It requests the toy manufacturers to aid it by ceasing to make the devices which prompt the young and innocent to devilish thoughts of war. If the toy manufacturers will cease, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, will thank them; if not, next fall the League will start a boycott on war toys...
There is clear-headed continuity in the ordering of the book, and also a flippant, strained use of fuzzy words. The historian sees his people motivated by eccentric ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that...
...Blue Life. An ugly, shy orphan youth with money falls into the hands of a barefoot carpenter with a devilish clever mania for astonishing people. The carpenter paints dragonfish on the youth's house and tries to marry him off to a wench with fat legs. Youth escapes carpenter at the expense of his reason, which later returns with a thud...
Maurice Ravel, Frenchman of devilish cleverness and satanic fertility, is busy putting the delights and horrors of Monte Carlo into operatic form. His libretto was written by Mme. Colette, who had laid its scene on the Côte d'Azur...
...they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily or Irene Shane before, but you will not soon forget them. They are alluring because they are alive. For instance, the development of Irene, from an innocent, sensitive child to the inhuman old maid, is surely one of the devilish tricks of life...