Word: devilish
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...takes against "the half-baked sophistication, juvenile cynicism, indifference," among Eastern students, as the Times puts it, if these things exist in the degree that he thinks they do and they seem to, not only among some undergraduates but among men long out of college who are so devilishly clever that they make on turn with relief to Sanford and Merton. The trouble with these superior, people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings to us not to be so devilish clever. When...
...matter of common knowledge that "Steamship" Hall, the tortuous twirler will occupy the box for the editors. His devilish delivery will be snapped up with precision and nonchalance by Ted Reynolds. The rest of the team will line up as follows, with possible changes at the eleventh hour: Stiles, s.s.; Fenn, r.f.; Lewis, 3b.; Kelley, r.f.; Edgerton, 2b.; Kennedy, r.f.; Baker, 1b.; Dixon, r.f.; Graves, l.f.; Culbert, r.f.; Thomas, c.f.; Fry, r.f.; Cook, r.f.; Williams, r.f.; Seymour, r.f.; Foreman, r.f.; Benjamin, r.f. Ingram, as umpire, will aid considerably in the overwhelming victory...
...announced at the mass meeting last evening, some enterprising vendor has estimated our enthusiasm over the Princeton game in terms of dollars and cents and has introduced into our midst a devilish device for producing a diabolical din. When used in sufficient number these instruments of noise, known as "clappers", are capable of producing enough sound to drown out the best organized cheering or the most effective singing. They are the type of noise-producer that a great crowd going to a professional baseball game desires to employ to "rattle" the opposing pitcher and to give the favorite team...
...familiar type in our midst is the case-hardened gambler, the grimly smiling sport-lover who courts Dame Fortune all he can, the man who confesses with a devilish expression that he "likes to take a sporting chance". He need no longer go in town for the tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada...
...this grotesquely ludicrous figure develops a realization of the moral bearings of the human situation in which his creators, for the paying of old grudges, have placed him; and finally, love begetting in him a soul, he renounces his precarious existence for the sake of others, and foils the devilish intent of the which and the fiend who produced him. It will be seen at once that such a change of tone between the beginning and the end, and so unexpected a call on the sympathy of the audience from a figure which at the outset was not even animate...