Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford Motor Co. employe named La Verne Tapp, his wife Myrtle, his 17-year-old daughter Shirley. The Tapps had been looking forward to the meeting. Shirley, who was "saved" at 14 by the Full Salvation Union, remarked: "It's going to be a great meeting although the Devil has sent ice and snow to try to thwart the Christians." So when Evangelist Wright brought his exhortations to a shouting climax, pale, pious Shirley Tapp was among the first to hasten up to the altar, burst into prayer. "Oh, Lord," cried she, "I will always praise You and never...
...Devil's Due. By & large Senator Nye's Committee, during its first week's effort, was not very successful in rewriting U. S. War history. Partner Lamont lately declared: "Like most of our contemporaries and friends and neighbors, we wanted the Allies to win from the outset of the War. We were pro-Ally by inheritance, by instinct, by opinion." But no evidence was adduced last week that the House of Morgan, for all its pro-Ally, sympathies, created the Allied demand for U. S. goods. And if J. P. Morgan & Co. indulged in secret skulduggery...
...Ethiopians when invading Italians set up at Aduwa the first cinema projector the town had ever seen, and invited the whole town to see the show. "I am not sure that was a work of Civilization," sardonically remarked Mussolini. "The natives fled to the hills as if from the Devil. Perhaps they were right...
...Hollywood. He went to Hollywood in 1915, rose through the ranks of film extras, finally starred in The Big Parade, won a $500,000 contract with MGM. Though he preferred characters that "live, breathe and sweat," fandom worshipped him as Garbo's ardent lover in Flesh and the Devil, Love. A squeaky voice doomed his talkie career, and he faded from public view. At the modest Hollywood funeral were two of his four divorced wives...
...plots of neither of these pictures are new. In the former, the weak man turns he-devil half by accident and regains the stolen bonds and wins the girl. In the latter, the tramp becomes bank president and is threatened with exposure and has to live it down to make everything end happily. The Paramount News was received with anti-administration cheering while the Voice of Experience seems to remain unappreciated by this college audience despite the obvious sincerity of his human interest story. His dramatic showmanship seems to mar all his shorts. It is, altogether, a good examination period...