Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...According to some reports, Martin Luther engaged in translating the Bible at the castle of Wartburg in 1521-2, heaved an inkstand at the Devil...
...victims of the said competition, have been drafted to their ridiculous duty. Their services need only have been impressed for the bedevilment of Harvard cheering, and they are assuming that implied obligation seriously--or is it ironically. The "avocatus Diaboli," I am aware, contends that a lack of "devil" in the stands is reflected on the field. This, as everybody else perfectly well knows, is rubbish. I have often been told by football friends that they did not even hear the cheering during a game much less care whether there was any or not. Cheering is a stimulant...
...these heirs to a glorious past and spirants to an even more glorious future greet each other from Hong Kong and Havana, from Beacon Hill and Devil's Gulch, what a dramatic moment demanding the imagination of a Hugo to appreciate! As East meets West and North meets South, is there no master's pen to do justice to the event? There...
...student at Harvard is at first bewildered by the size of the University, by the confusion of new faces, by the mass of pamphlets and papers dumped upon him, and by the willingness of everyone he meets to give advice and then leave him to go to the devil in his own way. A few weeks of the routine of college life will breed familiarity and confidence. But it sometimes happens that by the time a Freshman comes out of his fog, he finds himself swamped by the cumulative force of neglected studies. A Freshman's first duty, therefore...
Mourning thousands stood tense and sorrow-stricken in the rays of the setting sun. All eyes were bent upon impromptu catafalque where lay the body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra...