Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official engagements a year, recently logged eleven in one night. Says Houde: "I am what TIME called me-a glorified handshaker, a hotel-greeter-no? I do not exactly get tired. I get-what you say? -stale. When I have to get up early, it seems the Devil himself contrives to keep me up late. But I can take it. I am tough like hell...
...waxen-faced Yankee soldiers parade through the corridors of a building on Constance Street, singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Dr. Deschamps, the dentist, hanged in the 1850s for murdering a girl he was trying to hypnotize, still haunts an apartment in 714 St. Peter Street. The Devil's own head hung on a gable in a house on St. Charles Avenue until gable and house were torn down...
...Devil's Work. The Devil got around in New Orleans. Sometimes he even got into politics. In 1893, a baby boy was born in the righteous, Bible-pounding hill country north of the city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people...
...ailment; in Rome. A Cardinal since 1935, for the past nine years he had been Prefect of the Congregation of Rites (the organization which prepares argumentative evidence for & against the creation of new saints and blesseds). A persuasive orator, he had previously served as Promoter of the Faith ("The Devil's Advocate"), whose role is to argue as persuasively as possible against the candidate for canonization...
...years ago. Far below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...