Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although there are now five one-time marines in the House, David W. Stewart is the first "devil dog" to occupy a seat in the Senate. His term is a brief one, beginning actively when Congress reconvenes in December and ending on March...
...must leave Passaic within 48 hours or his headquarters would be bombed and he would find himself six feet under the earth. He ignored it, no terrestial upheaval smote him. Who is this "Communist" Weisbord who has become "the hero of 16,000 inarticulate but devoted followers, and the devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave...
...Hill," besides figuring in Seattle vocabularies as a euphemism for "the Devil," signifies paunchy Samuel Hill, millionaire husband of Mary, daughter of the late rail magnate, James J. Hill. Sam Hill, candid, reputedly confessed to Seattle pressmen last week that he built Maryhill, his estate on the Columbia River, "just to entertain a king or queen in," that he has been stalking royal guests ever since...
...Devil's Island (Pauline Frederick). "A Drama of the White Hot Passions of the Isle of Lost Men" shrieks its press agent. Although the temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...
SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN - Eugene O'Neill's confusing problem about selling your brains to the devil. CRAIG'S WIFE - About a woman who dusted her house so carefully that it ceased to be a home. LULU BELLE - Lenore Ulric painting a brilliantly tawdry picture of a Negro dance hall girl. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS - In which three lonely ladies, aged about 40, find diversion in three young men from college. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - J. M. Barrie and Helen Hayes collaborating in a most satisfactory revival. AT MRS. BEAM'S - The terrible predicament...