Word: devilishness
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...much the Allies had managed to learn about the ingenious German enemy's devilish V-2 rocket bomb was a security secret last week. But it was no secret that they believed they knew one source of its superspeedy power: its fuel. They did something about...
...their girls way hell-&-gone over the ocean, surrounded by people who talked foreign languages ("You'd be surprised at how the French can get on your nerves"), with Japs and Germans shooting at them, and with the very ground dangerous and explosive: "The Germans . . . use all the devilish, fiendish devices of war, things that we don't dare use. Poisoned mines, ones that bounce up and spread death for 25 yards; steel darts, that will go right through you; castorators, a nice little gadget that when you step on it blows your groin...
Jokesmith's Art. In the training classes, mines and traps are mixed with a practical joker's devilish wit. Students quickly learn to be suspicious as the giant firecrackers explode when a truck is started, or a tool lifted. Students cannot be too suspicious for their own future good...
Last week the War Department gave harassed G.I.s better news than a 16-day furlough. The devilish leggings are on the way out. They will soon be replaced by leather combat boots ten inches high. The lower part of the boot is laced; the top part, into which the trouser leg tucks, is neatly buckled. Combat soldiers, long envious of the Germans' comfortable, homely field boot, thought it was about time...
...Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman was braced to resist something in unshaven tweeds with a Cremo breath and a voice like a moose decoy. What she met was "so sweet and human that I decided that anyone she worked for" (Mr. Selznick walked up the walls in devilish glee) "couldn't be nearly so crazy as I expected." When, in early April 1939, the Queen Mary docked at Pier 90, the remarkable Miss Brown had in tow the richest screen potentiality of a decade...