Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read 10° below zero; but 1,200 miles southward, in Canton, quite another sort of Chinaman was as warm as a Miami mermaid. The two kinds of Chinamen could by no possibility have understood each other in Chinese, so different are their dialects. But the Yang-kuei tze ("Foreign Devil") has taught a few Chinese of every region English, especially the word "Nationalism...
...Shanghai, chief U. S. sphere, are 4,000 U. S. citizens; half of them businessmen and professional people. Last week, though Marshall Sun seemed doing his best to defend the Yang-kuei tze, he raised the customs duties at Shanghai, and the "Foreign Devil" had to pay the surcharge...
...city. Belgium, in despair, announced that she would turn over the Belgian concessions at Tientsin without pretense of a struggle should the North Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin so demand. At Foochow and elsewhere mobs were incited against the Yang-kuei tze by the old story: "The Foreign Devil kills Chinese babies and cuts them...
...furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends." Never mind the magic, what did the witches and sorcerers indisputably do? Their deeds fill this bulky volume?with a bedlam of blasphemy, with a scourge of poisoning, kidnaping and organized crime that swept Europe, with an orgy of self indulgence...
...through the air on broomsticks. They smeared each other with an irritant ointment, danced and leaped high with sticks between their legs, thereby exciting themselves for the orgy which closed all witches "Sabbats" (Congresses). Withal, they zealously professed a kind of religion, a perverted Gnostic creed that postulated the Devil equal part-creator of the universe with God and more ready to reward his adorants with the things of this world than was the self-styled "jealous" Father...