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Word: devilment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What were some of those things? "The thing about Europe is, can you defend it? If Russia has the atomic bomb, can't they knock the devil out of Europe? I don't know. We have to help Europe-the question is how much? Is that our main purpose? Should we make plans for defeating Russia on the European continent, or should we depend on air power? I've been primarily an air man, but I don't think we should put all our eggs in one basket. I don't know. It ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man in a New Hat | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

London. His second successful opera, it was based on the legend of a Dutch captain condemned by the Devil to sail the seas until judgment day, unless, in brief excursions ashore every seven years, he could find a woman who would be faithful until death. The ghostly Dutchman finds his woman in the second act, but without giving operatic stage directors much lively theater business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dutchman Cometh | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...course we had to go out and get our players, but Coach Gustafson and his aides are capable of recruiting without the aid of the Capone mob. The editorial claims that winning football teams that are "bought" don't mean very much. Just how in the devil does he think games are won? With students? --Editorial in the Miami Hurricane

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/15/1950 | See Source »

Governor James E. Folsom, in no kissin' mood, sued the Reader's Digest for $1,000,000 on the ground that an article on the Alabama penal system called "Devil's Island, U.S.A." was a libel on him and "on the people of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...movies go, New York is definitely having a substandard weekend. Now features at the big houses are American Guerilla in the Philippines (Astor), starring Tyrone Power and Michelin Prelle; King Solomon's Mines (Radio City Music Hall), with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger; Robert Taylor in Devil's Doorway (Capitol); All About Eve (Roxy); and J. Arthur Rank's Prelude to Fame (52nd Street Trans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

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