Word: devilishness
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Thomas Mann's opinion of Martin Luther (TIME, Jan. 7) is of little importance; but . . . Mr. Mann knows perfectly well Luther was referring to the pillaging, ravaging, raping and murdering rabble and he was incensed that honest peasants had been forced into the devilish confederacy...
...opened Broadway's 1945-46 season without letting in much fresh air. An operetta about Johann Strauss (George Rigaud) headlining the great Boston Jubilee of 1872 and breaking hearts on Beacon Hill, it muffs the three real opportunities provided by the story. Far from conveying any of the devilish Strauss charm it babbles about, the book doesn't even billow with good lush operetta sentiment; it is just crushingly dull...
...Deanna Durbin (the lady) gets off the train, and begins a half-farcical, half-melodramatic hunt for the killer. She is variously helped and hin dered by assorted menaces, red herrings and foozlebrains - like Ralph Bellamy and Dan Duryea (as two brothers who loathe each other), George Coulouris (a devilish butler), Allen Jenkins (a sinister chauffeur), David Bruce (a mystery author), and Edward Everett Horton (Edward Everett Horton...
After several weeks in the bush ("a devilish shrub . . . chest high and thickly matted together, it is covered with sharp thorns half an inch long"), Tweed and his friend Al Tyson moved into a hole in a hillside that was "practically the Waldorf-Astoria." And a native friend brought them a radio. But a search party soon drove them...
...Easter holidays brought a prayerful hope to Britons: that they had seen and felt and heard the last of the Germans' devilish V-bombs. For three days and nights, up to this week, not a single buzz-bomb (V1) or rocket bomb (V2) had fallen on Britain...