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Word: devilment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diabolist Corradetti, his red-rimmed eyes blinking in the glare of the stage lights, beamed. His faith in the Devil had been rewarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Satan & the Socialists | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

William Booth became "General" and his new Salvation Army fell into step behind him as uniformed privates, noncoms and officers-with bands, "councils of war," "orders of the day" and "knee-drill" (prayer). The enemy was the Devil, and the Army marched to meet him wherever the going was toughest: in Skid Rows and slum alleyways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shock Troops | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Belowstairs, among the kitchen mechanics, he is the very devil of a fellow, too. There he rations out three beers and a jigger of whiskey twice a day to the cooks and dishwashers. And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate. Last week, Local 89 of the A.F.L.'s Chefs, Cooks, Pastry Cooks and Assistants Union had Billingsley up before the state labor relations board. The charge: that by alternate wheedling and bullying he had committed an unfair labor practice and caused the local to lose a bargaining election last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...such as Addison's "Cato" took place in 1758, but care was taken that the drama did not exceed the limits of propriety. In 1765, a cryptic diary notation reads "Scholars punished at College for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the Devil...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Stubborn Puritan Tradition Fetters Dramatics | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

Christmas Eve (Boqeous; United Artists), a less appetizing holiday confection, concerns an eccentric old gotrocks (Ann Harding) and her far-flung adopted sons (George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott). They surmount the world, the flesh and the devil to reach her side on Christmas Eve-just in time to save her from the booby hatch for spending $500,000 on 500,000 dead rats. Producer Benedict Bogeaus spent considerably more on this dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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