Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bohemian fairytale, Schwanda, a bagpipe player, was a perfect antidote for boredom. He melted Queen Ice-Heart who would have married him if his wife Dorota had not appeared with her carpet bag, demanding explanations. He put new life into the Devil who, before Schwanda visited him, was reduced to playing solitaire and reading Hell's tabloids...
Linked by no ties of blood or tradition, Yale plays St. John's for the mere sake of having an opponent scheduled and of preserving her vitality for a contest two weeks away. Where is the good old "devil-may-care" spirit of a university. Which does not stoop to petty things, which plays football for the fun of playing the game, and not for the hope that she may prove herself a superior institution by defeating her adversary in athletics? --Yale Daily News
...another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal, but he won't. Did not Keats write of "Stout Cortez?" Are you not answered, oh ye of little faith? And anyway, it is part and parcel of the nuance, the devil may care, the grand elan that makes the Vagabond such a lovable old wastrel. Ask anyone you meet, "What makes the Vagabond such a delightful character?" and the answer will come back, "Why it's because he's so horrid, inaccurate and unbelievable...
...Europe, they do not understand this giant of the Senate, his primitive background, and incalculable idealism. In Europe they believe that all politicians are realists. Non-partisan experts have said for years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally or not Mr. Borah had stolen the show...
...time has passed when the nonpayment of debts was a pre-requisite of the aristocrat. That follow lived hard, died young, and rode to the Devil with the rest, fleeing before the window smashing that paved the way for our present commercial leisure class. His diaphanous lady has also gone the way of more flesh, and into her place swings the rebust, long-limbed woman of our time, with a figure for health and a comradely eye for a horse. Literature falters before her baffling smile, and the sad young men are troubled. To those confirmed in the opinion that...