Word: devill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producing the latest of their great dictionaries elegant savants of the French Academy began on Nov. 5, 1885 with "A" and worked until last-week when they reached the final "Z." In previous editions the last word had been zut!-French for "Go to the Devil!" At their final, historic meeting last week the French savants added zygomatique, thus adopting into French the fanciest English adjective for cheekbone...
...Devil's Helper (Cont...
...charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter to the President of the Republic. Tried and convicted for libeling the Army, Zola fled to England. By then...
...Devil's Helper...
Three-quarters of a century ago in Portland. Maine, a fierce form of religious fervor overtook a hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung...