Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entry is with her brother, giving a sketch, "The Bowerie Tough," played by her father and mother twenty years ago. They sing, "Over on 8't Avenoo" with the most ludicrous pantomime imaginable; then, disappearing for a moment, Kitty startles everyone by her clever kicking and singing as "The Devil of the Dive...
...nominating Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio as Republican candidate for the Presidency the Chicago Convention selected a man not of accomplishments but of possibilities. In spite of his rise from printer's devil to newspaper owner in spite of his honorable record as legislator, lieutenant-governor, and United States senator from a pivotal state, Mr. Harding's name is not distinguished by any title of achievement. In his ability to make friends, to deliver a telling speech, and to follow unerringly the spirit and the letter of sound Republican doctrine, Senator Harding is without a rival, and insofar...
...plot, which is rather candid without being risque, conters around jean Pone Pierre, a "Blue-Devil," who is in America to urge the United States not to go back on the French in their demands for indemnity from Germany. In the opening scene, we have presented to us the romance between Pierre and Mildred, which had its inception in France before the action of the play. Mildred is trying to obtain a divorce from her husband, Casper Henslow...
...mode of presentation. He has chosen the most difficult of all modes--the direct. Torquemada speaks for Torquemada, fully and at length. The great men hold the center of the stage. Scott, Hugo, Dumas, all of the legion who have succeeded in popularizing history avoided this method as the devil. Minor figures, though principal characters in the story held the public eye, while the major figures in the world's history appeared and disappeared in the background. Yet there is more historical truth, more conviction, more delineation of character in Louis XI's treatment of Pierre Gringoire...
Compromis is an excellent and necessary thing in the ordinary work of legislation. In an issue like the present each side is fain to consider a compromise as a compromise with the devil. The only thing the would make Senator Lodge desert the American flag is the voce of the people. Only the voce of the people can turn Senator Hitchcock from the cause of humanity. But the voice of the people says to each of these men different things...