Word: devilishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just at this time," they declared in a pastoral letter read in all German churches on Sunday, "Communism and Bolshevism attempt with devilish purposefulness and pertinacity to strike from the East [Russia] and from the West [Spain] against Germany, the heart of Europe, and thereby to take it into their fatal pincers . . . German solidarity must not be impaired by religious worry . . . Communism will not be struck in its deepest roots by military force but through the resurrection-in Jesus Christ-of Europe in general and our Fatherland in particular. . . . During the last few months within Germany's own border...
...Donald Davis; Max Gordon, producer). When Max Gordon announced that he was going to present a dramatized version of Novelist Edith Wharton's frosty little masterpiece, the first thing that came to the minds of those who had read Ethan Frome was that the producer would have a devilish time staging the sledding crash which is the tragedy's ironic climax. As it turns out, there need have been no such public anxiety. Between them, Producer Gordon, the Playwrights Davis and Designer Jo Mielziner have achieved a rare triumph of art and showmanship...
...gang who aim to realize profit on the sale of Miss Herries' art treasures. It is easy for the villains to seclude her for she is a known recluse and nobody is surprised when she appears to have gone into complete solitary confinement. The play demonstrates convincingly the devilish control which Abbott's gang holds over Miss Herries and portrays in highly dramatic fashion her noble but vain struggle to release herself. The gentle lady has an indomitable will and eventually she succeeds in convincing a visitor that she is not out of her mind and aid is called...
Southerners may wonder that so amiable and intelligent a Negro as Mose should blunder into such devilish complications, or provoke such vicious enemies, but they are not likely to cavil over Author Rylee's understanding of the peculiar problems of Southern life. Indeed, Author Rylee finds the central motive for Mary's persistent effort to free Mose, for Rutherford's brief acceptance of his social responsibility, in their profound love of the South and their hatred of those who would dishonor it. Passionately Mary denounces the decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes...
...Devilish when they dive, plucking of tense stays...