Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine passengers on a Washington-Pittsburgh plane of Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
...noise nor vibration interfered with passengers' enjoyment of the antics of James Cagney several thousand feet over the Alleghenies, Central Airlines does not plan to install cinema-chinery in its planes regularly until some manufacturer produces specially-designed equipment. First sound motion picture in the air was not Devil Dogs of the Air but Baboona, the Martin Johnson film which Eastern Air Lines showed bigwigs month ago in a Douglas a mile over Manhattan. Baboona, a regular 35-mm. film, will be shown again over Chicago this week in a TWAirliner...
...Colonel also added that nothing gave him more pleasure than being interviewed by a reporter. "If you don't cut out sending your candidates to me and misquoting everything I say, I will come over and raise the devil about it." "One morning I wake up, and I'm a corporal, and the next I'm a sergeant or a general. It's driving me nuts...
Another Caesar is not Neumann's first historical novel. The Devil, published in the U. S. in 1928, had considerable success. A play, The Patriot, was made into one of Emil Jannings' best cinemas. Since the advent of Hitler, Neumann has lived in Florence. Another Caesar has been translated into eight languages besides English...
...Mass Congressmen is going to introduce a bill into the House which will make all organizations that advocate violent overthrow of the existing government unlawful. An told that the San Simson Scion is going to have his newspapers back the little project. Watch all the leftists howl like the devil. They, who kick at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review will scream for it if this little tid-bit is passed. Your correspondent agrees with them heartily, but is inclined to smile at their feminine inconsistency. "There in lies their charm," we suppose...