Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village of Palmagyu, Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money. Had they not just seen what the money devil could do to a strong man? Ion Gerghuta, their neighbor and a thrifty farmer, had come back from the town of Kronstadt with his crop money?...
...matter had now become a national scandal with precisely that touch of genius which France relishes. Comoedia published an announcement: WANTED: A VOLUNTEER FOR THE INSTITUT! "Come, come, gentlemen," concluded the article, "who wants to join the Institut? What the devil! It's a worthy movement...
...Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil Tobacco or one of the many other worldly evils in combatting which the Kresge fortune has been freely expended...
Pending definite news, Senator Edge was internally atwitter over the prospect of being "just across the Channel, Charlie." A somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with...
...stockholders had any suspicion that all was not well. To them Mr. Schulte replied that no common dividends might be paid for the rest of the year, that if cut pricing prevailed there might be no dividends for the next five years, that one of his stores, fighting the devil with fire, had cut 15? cigarets to 11?, that "retailers are going to make a legitimate profit or none at all." Should this 11? policy be followed at all Schulte stores it might well be imitated by the United Cigar Stores (allied with Schulte through the Union & United Tobacco Corp...