Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sholapur, their tearing down of the Indian flag wherever flown, their hoisting of the Union Jack. Stay at home subjects of George V know that, given an occasional whiskey soda and a tough platoon or two, "Sir Freddy" Sykes fears his own Jehovah but no heathen God. man or devil, commands boundless loyalty from the British tommies in that glamorous, sternly romantic force "His Majesty's army in India." The Times of India, an anti Gandhi, pro British paper published at Bombay, sent to Sholapur respected President Hirachand of the Maharasthra Chamber of Commerce. What he reported the Times...
...Devil's Holiday (Paramount). Director Edmund Goulding usually writes his own stories and has the reputation of being able to make the stars who work for him perform brilliantly even when they have given no previous indication of brilliance. After bossing Gloria Swanson in her most recent and best picture The Trespasser, he has done an even more painstaking job for Nancy Carroll, whose previous film experience has embraced few parts more taxing than the leads in Honey and Sweetie. In The Demi's Holiday she plays a little adventuress who, in cahoots with a salesman of farm equipment, sets...
...enacted by the legislature of a sovereign state as "persecution." Sir Esmond Ovey, trained in the British Foreign Office tradition of using words exactly and not loosely (of "saying what one means and meaning what one says"), concludes with the regret of a Churchman forced to give the Devil his due: "There is no religious persecution in Russia in the strict sense of the term 'persecution,' and no case has been discovered of a priest or anyone else being punished for the practice of religion...
...Century interiors; and for the delicate reticence of Miss Gish's acting. Not since 1913 has Cinemactress Gish been on Broadway. At that time she inhabited the same boarding house as Cinemactress Mary Pickford, who got her a small part in David Belasco's A Good Little Devil. Soon afterward David Wark Griffith took her in charge, well-nigh beatified her during the next 15 years as the virginal, wide-eyed heroine of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, The White Sister, et al. Soon to be seen is her first audible cinema...
...some basis for this effort at getting reliable prohibition statistics when the purpose that prompted this action is examined. The object of the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll was to crystalize student opinion on prohibition. That it did. It may be that some of the votes were cast in devil-may-care attitude but when 24,000 college students speak out there is a tone of seriousness accompanying the facts. The paper from Wisconsin states that if the number of drinkers and non-drinkers could be ascertained, a basis for an intelligent observation would be laid. However, a poll asking...