Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Television Program. He read it on his way to Toronto, where he was working as a reporter on the Globe and Mail. Then he wrote a 30-minute TV script which was promptly bought by Armstrong Circle Theater. Last week another Wilber play, The Fire Below and the Devil Above, appeared on Kraft Television Theater. It was the 18th TV drama he has sold in the past eleven months...
...James F. Stephen, the noted English criminologist, made the classic explanation of the background of the rule, when he quoted with approval a remark about occasional violations of the immunity by Indian policemen: "It is far pleasanter to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing red pepper into a poor devil's eyes than to go about in the sun hunting up evidence." In a discriminating examination of the arguments for and against the constitutional right, John H. Wigmore, the distinguished American legal writer, concludes: "For the sake, then, not of the guilty, but of the innocent accused, and of conservative...
...browsing through all the orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise of gentility to suggest that Dunster House students would not profit by reading Norman Douglas' South Wind. . .Here today...
...Ralph Richardson is cast as John Ridgeway, a manufacturer who was once a dare-devil aviator and who feels the same way about breaking the sound barrier as some men would about exploring virgin territory. Ridgeway must send more planes and aviators to attempt the seemingly impossible, even after his son-in-law crashes in the first test plane. Although he alienates his daughter and wonders himself whether or not his vision is an evil spirit, he continues. When one of his planes finally beats the barrier, Ridgeway feels no clation--only, perhaps, relief...
...Senator, now 42, was born in Anaheim (pop. 15,000), Calif., son of the pioneer publisher of the Anaheim Gazette, a daily newspaper still operated as a family enterprise. He worked as a printer's devil when he was a boy, went to the University of Southern California, where he ran as a sprinter on the track team and studied law. He got into politics in 1936, served two terms as a state legislator, two as a state senator. At 30, he was chairman of the California Republican Central Committee-the youngest in state history...