Word: devilishness
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...motivation for this situation and a mort of others becomes so hopelessly entangled that nobody really tries to get the straight of it. Mr. Gable, who can glide through this kind of thing without wiggling an ear, is devilish good in his sure-fire part; so are Frank Morgan (retired judge and practicing drunkard) and Claire Trevor (dancehall hostess). A super Western salted with equal dashes of shooting and sex, Honky Tank will burn no tongues, gag few gullets...
...bill. The House Ways and Means Committee hoped thereby to raise $323,000,000 in extra revenue. But a wave of public resentment against compulsory joint returns has swept down on the House. To many a defender of women's rights, the rule looks like a devilish device to sell married women down the river into slavery...
...Before Peace. "Before we have the right to talk . . . about the foundations of a just and democratic peace, we must put our backs under the job of defeating the forces of evil. These forces are immensely stronger than most of us realize. Jesus, recognizing the devilish efficiency of the dark forces, said: 'The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.' At the-moment, most of us in the United States are overconfident. We are not working hard enough. ... I myself am confident of the final outcome because I know...
...this worldly environment, young Marian Evans had long feared that she might become "earthly, sensual and devilish." She wrote little but translations, but even these were a moral hazard: she had lost her faith while translating Strauss's Life of Jesus. She was about to lose something else. Says Author Haight: "The sensual side seems to have developed to a marked degree while she was translating The Essence of Christianity." From this work Marian learned Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach's notions about free love. She had met "the ugliest man in London," George Lewes, the biographer of Goethe...
...determine the size and nature of his practice, fix the amount of his fees, take time off for a fishing trip whenever he can afford to (and the state of his patients permits). He dreads the phrases "state medicine," "group medicine," "collective medicine," as devilish harbingers of a day when he will be a mere salaried employe, taking the jobs and patients he is told...