Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advocatus diaboli (devil's advocate) appears to point out the weaknesses of the case, which must be proved in each of the three particulars, when a decree de tuto is issued. All is then ready for the ceremony of beatification-raising the candidate from the rank of Venerable to Blessed, a step to canonization. This last always takes place in the basilica of St. Peter's and is one of the most important ecclesiastical functions of the Pope...
...Fool. They go at this God vs. the Devil narrative very seriously. The good man, who happens to be a minister, triumphs over the bad man. The poor profit by much charity in the course of things, and much morality is on parade. The play of the same name ran hundreds of performances in Manhattan and on the road. Therefore the theme must be of widespread interest. Though Edmund Lowe and his associates act intelligently, the pulse of the picture beats dully...
...harbor of Singapore from the boats riding at anchor there"?Alexander's Ragtime Band. Within four years more, he had written hundreds of other successful songs, including When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam, Everybody's Doin' It Now, I Want To Be in Dixie, At the Devil's Ball, the score of a Ziegfeld Follies and two eminently successful musical comedies. In 1917, he wrote a bugle song...
...Devil Within is one of those melodramas where the individual auditor is expected to curl up like a piece of burnt leather and crumble away with excitement. On the opening evening, professional observers refused to do this, owing to their long stern schooling in the mystery melodrama. The hide of an accomplished critic will not curl. Ordinary observers were reported to have curled slightly. In the last act, some of them even crumbled...
Alexander Woollcott?"Doubtless he [the author, Charles Horan, a cinema director] felt The Devil Within to be a bit thick for the movies, so he made it into a play...