Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Englishmen grumbled over their chops, muttered into their ale. What the devil business had the press taking a holiday when something important was happening? Out in Sydney, N. S. W., England and Australia had been playing off "The Ashes" (international cricket championship) for seven days*; and now, just when the final score was due, the newspapermen were chucking it all and going home to undo presents and bounce the baby. Outrageous...
...that the "art theatre" had achieved new and notable dimensions in the U. S. when the Guild gave Heartbreak House, Mr. Pirn Passes By and Liliom among other plays of its third season. With He Who Gets Slapped, Ambush, Back to Methuselah, R.U.R., Peer Gynt, The Adding Machine, The Devil's Disciple, Fata Morgana and still others the Guild continued its conquest of an ever-growing public that looks to it for all that is broadly and deeply discerning in U. S. stage production...
...cannot become a real condition unless the grandstands drop a little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates for self-dedication to sport. When a football match becomes the amusement of a holiday afternoon, when the bleachers abandon...
Prussia of Frederick the Great, every man was allowed to 'seek Heaven in his own fashion.' The same principle prevailed under the old Kaiser. But in the Germany of William II, no man, in his own fashion or otherwise, was permitted to go to the devil...
...their positive belief that everyone goes either to Heaven or Hell makes them argue in favor of capital punishment. At the time the time the Leopold-Loeb case was going on, I heard Doctor Straton from his own pulpit give as a reason for the horrible crime that the Devil had possessed the two boys...