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Word: devilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former subject of the empire that the sun never sets on, permit me to apologize for a fellow Britisher. That letter of uninhibited Canadian Reader Barton plainly reveals that the poor devil's condition is congenital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...setting the Hiltons, their two daughters, son, maid and terrier on a frolic for 16 lively hours. Forsythia and iris are blooming, and to love all hearts turn lightly save that of the Hilton's cleaning woman who ominously declares: "The first spring day Is in the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...first, the famous "Knight, Death and Devil", mediaeval characteristics predominate. A knight is seen riding to battle, haunted by a leering Death dangling a symbolic hour glass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMANIC MUSEUM | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

...third, "St. Jerome in his Study", the composition is kept extremely simple. No superfluous details are to be found, all attention being directed toward the solitary figure of tremely simple. The mysticism and confusion of "Knight, Death and Devil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMANIC MUSEUM | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

...back home to run things. Two others guessed they were past the legal age limit of 65 for jurymen. One by one, the dusky dozen who would no more have dreamed of sitting on a jury with the "white captains" than they would of walking up and slapping the devil in the face, escaped from the courthouse by their own devices or were eliminated by the prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Get It Done Quick | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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