Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some squares, such as those marked "Courtesy" or "Communion," offer a new spin of the wheel or an advance of several notches. Others impose severe penalties. At square 17 the player loses a turn and must go back to number 10 for "yielding to the Devil's temptation." The same punishment is demanded for reading the red-splashed "evil press" (number 31). The worst penalty of all is attached to the last square-number 49-which sends the young "pilgrim" all the way back to number 5, the square marked "Religious Instruction." On square 49 is a picture...
Anesthetizing The Devil...
From the Middle Ages, when sticks were used to "beat the devil" out of mental patients, through the middle '30s, when electric and insulin shock therapy began, physical treatment of the insane relied on rude methods. Even now, shock "cures" may be worse than the disease: they often fail to cure, and sometimes the patient breaks a jaw or crushes his backbone in violent, convulsive spasms...
...Devil's Disciple. Shaw's tongue-in-cheek, neck-in-noose melodramatics of the American Revolution, rising to a loud barrage of wit (TIME...
...Hollywood's cycle on jet aviation with a great rush of supersonic hot air. Its jets fly much faster (1,400 m.p.h.), higher (90,000 feet) and longer (four hours plus) than any jet-propelled fighter yet announced by the U.S. Air Force. With Humphrey Bogart as a devil-may-care test pilot, its heroics are built to scale...