Word: devilishness
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...what a glorious morning it was! Just enough of enervating, voluptuous heat-and just enough breeze to fill the wings of the zephyrs-and just enough sunshine to reflect a sparkle in the eyes of beautiful women-and just enough people . . . on the pave to make one continued, ceaseless, devilish, provoking, delicious, glorious jam!" Thus ecstatically did young (22) Editor Walt Whitman of Manhattan's daily Aurora (circ. 5,000) sing the praises of New York in the spring of 1842. It was a notable newspaper era. Besides Whitman's Aurora, New York City boasted 15 other daily...
Edmund Morris Morgan. Morgan is stopping out of the Royall professorship of Law, the oldest law chair in the University. To students he was a short, slight, kindly man who underwent a schizophrenic change in the classroom which they claim he turned into "medieval horror chambers" by devilish cross examinations on court procedure...
...Basil, a tall, spare tweedy fellow, not only exhibited a rather devilish pride, but took a loftily critical view of their performance. Listening to the volume of booing, he said rather sniffily, "I am not at all impressed." A reporter asked him for his wife's first name. Said he: "Do you know your first name, my dear?" She said it was Cynthia, and he beamed. "That," he cried, "is why I married her. She has a terrific sense of humor...
...against the highest-flying, swiftest planes, which "could neither see them nor dodge them; they come too fast." The missiles carry proximity fuzes which, during the war, "multiplied the effectiveness of large antiaircraft batteries by five or ten." The fuze, which commands the scientist's awe as "a devilish device," may yet, he thinks, "bring a feeling of relative security to the world...
Polk said last night that he had discovered that Gregory Stakiopoulos, government "finger-man" in the case, was famed as the "Political Barometer of the Balkans"--a "devilish and shrewd" man who in many changes of government had always managed to remain on the winning side...