Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sforza and Medici. When the Prince was translated into English many an Anglo-Saxon was appalled that so many truths about the baseness of men and how to play upon it should ever have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims: 1) "It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong and to make use of it or not according to necessity." 2) "Men are so simple . . . that...
Simultaneously, British notables, headed by Director Harry Price of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, pondered the antics of coins, which were invisibly pitched across a room where they were observing, under strict control conditions, one Eleoncre Zugan, 13, cheerful, chunky Rumanian wench who had announced: "The Devil has come with me to London. The Devil is very pleased to come to London, for he hopes to find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother...
...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...
...German film, by Ufa, creator of The Last Laugh, Siegfried, Variety, achieves a triumph in photographic fantasy. From the ever-serviceable Faust story is derived a weird fairytale, a picture story of the powers of evil on earth. Through it all goes Emil Jannings, a not particularly impressive Devil, making funny faces, playing mean pranks, raising hell. In the end, however, he loses his wager with the Lord's archangel, for Faust regained a soul by dying at the side of Marguerite with LOVE in his heart. A story not without significance, but florid rather than profound. The excellence...
Barney Barnato. Solomon ("Solly") Joel's re-emergence into the news revived interest in his dare-devil uncle, the late famed Barney Barnato, ne Isaacs, one-time Jewish peddler and contortionist on the streets of London, founder of the fabulous diamond fortune of the Joel and Barnato families which now totals at least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found...