Word: devilishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...home that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered the U. S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, from Main Street in Montana to high life in Saratoga. Readers who flinch at phantoms need have no fear...