Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Workshop unanimously voted to present "The Tempest" at a general meeting held on Friday. Webster's "The White Devil" and Shakespeare's "Measure For Measure" were the other serious contenders for production...
Crackpots & Misfits. Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.50-a-week office boy at the Detroit News, Michigan's biggest daily (present circ...
...stiffened in their saddles. "I never heard a hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said to the jury...
...thought support loans and exports would prop up prices, were worried. Irate farm-bloc Congressmen called in Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan to ask a Congressman's perennial question: Who's to blame? Brannan could do no better than trot out a familiar Administration devil: the speculator. He ordered the Chicago Board of Trade to dig up the names and employment of all buyers & sellers on the fateful Tuesday. Speculators must have been to blame, said Brannan, because he could not see any other reason for such a drastic shakeout...
...they should be forbidden to preach from their pulpits or teach in their schools. Said Dr. Frank T. Cartwright, China secretary of the Methodist Church's Division of Foreign Missions: "Some of the conservative boards may feel that doing mission work under the Communists is compromising with the Devil, but most of the larger boards feel that if we are allowed to teach Christianity, or even live a life of Christian witness alongside Communism, we would do it. We believe Christianity can stand on its own feet . . . We're willing to do a lot of experimenting. There...