Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HEARTY AND HELLISH! (the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Columbia). The Irish revolutionaries who now campaign on the nightclub circuit launch with characteristic gusto into the folk favorites of the pubs. In the quartet's repertory are love songs, drinking songs (Whiskey, You're the Devil) and a few broad digs at Mother England...
...veranda of the Costa Verde Hotel near Acapulco, in Mexico. The hotelkeeper, the Widow Maxine Faulk, played by Bette Davis, is a hostage to devil-in-the-flesh sensuality. T. Lawrence Shannon (Patrick O'Neal), a defrocked clergyman turned tourist guide, is spooked by guilt. As a man who was barred from his church for committing "fornication and heresy in the same week," O'Neal seems agonizingly nailed to a cross of nerves. Nonno (Alan Webb), a 97-year-old poet, is the prisoner of art and age, struggling between memory lapses to finish a new poem. Hannah...
...verdict is passed on to the Congregation of Rites, which then lists the person as a "servant of God." After the evidence is re-examined by the congregation, the servant may be declared by the Pope as a "venerable." The venerable's cause is then challenged by a devil's advocate (real title: promoter of the faith), who will search for scandal in the person's life, question the authenticity of the two miracles (usually medical cures) alleged to be the result of the potential saint's intercession with God on behalf of some person...
...swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed the town Saint's Rest. But even for New Concord, young Glenn's standards were strict...
...Khrushchev on his tour of France, became one of the few contenders to top Khrushchev in a proverb-spouting contest. The old adage (quoted by Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) that stopped Nikita: "He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil...