Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrests and blacklists the poor devil gone wrong, but lets the moving picture houses, vaudeville theatres, dancing halls, and many other places where corruption is insidiously displayed and methodically preached and could be had for the asking, have their own way. Or does not Mr. Chase know that even church dances contribute to corruption? He should have come with me to a Methodist dance where a member of the church, a beautiful young lady, half naked, with hay around her waist, danced, personifying the cave woman...
...Devil's Circus. What happens when a little girl is seduced by a lion tamer is here discussed. The circus queen loved the lion tamer and stirred up a horrid row. Norma Shearer, the girl, manages to make an average film fair entertainment...
Next day, gentle Saint-Gaudens sailed for France. Said he: "Forain is a very devil of a man and his anger is terrible to behold...
...that romances batten on, is the Paradise of those writers who deal in the inexplicably appealing figure of the complete rogue. Defoe was the first to greatly plead the case of the unregenerate; there have been many since who fall back not on manner or significance but on the devil-may-care, romantic interest that lies in a man without ordinary morals who succeeds in living by his wits...
...example," he said, "What does the following suggestion for a poem or an article refer to: Randolph consecrating the Duke of York's banners'? It turns up again in a curious poem called the Devil's Walk, and seems to have made a good deal of a stir at the time, but the incident remains to be identified. In addition there are fascinating extracts from one of the most interesting books of the period, Bartram's 'Travels in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, etc.;' extracts dealing with alligators, snake-birds, Indians and strange plants. There are references...