Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fired with the patriotic zeal of Mazzini, Sandino devoted himself to the cause of Nicaraguan liberty. When American Devil Dogs came to protect the property of capitalist adventurers, he told it to the Marines with bullets, writing bloody pages in one of the most sordid chapters in American imperialism. For five years Sandino led a band of ragged followers in guerilla warfare as Supreme Chief of the Army of Defenders of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua. "God and our mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they...
...Devil Tiger (Fox) Director Clyde E. Elliott, who filmed Frank Buck's Bring 'Em Back Alive, has signed affidavits that every foot of Devil Tiger was filmed in the jungles of India, Siam, Indo-China and Malaya. His shot of a lion fighting a tiger (with the comment that lions are "nearly" extinct in Asia) may cause some quarrels. Many an animal expert believes that what lions there are in Asia are on the central plains, not in the southern jungles. Nonetheless Director Elliott's lion and tiger stage a good if indecisive fight, as do numerous...
...there an actual being or person called the devil? (46% yes, 42% no, 12% undecided...
...Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly in, leading his Puritan fanatics. Sir Gower was killed, Marigold arrested. Wrestling fell asleep in the forest to dream of the fiery netherworld, of dancers with slippery hips, of Marigold for whom he signs the devil's book, has the devil's mark seered into his forehead...
...most successful rebellion (1919-21), they call it, with resigned racial euphemism, "the trouble." Author Conner's novel, without attempting to give a clear picture of what the various troublemakers were after, makes it quite clear that the trouble itself was desperate, often hellish. Shake Hands with the Devil reads like crude melodrama but Author Conner swears his tale is founded on brutal fact, has needed no embellishment...