Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agrees, and he dresses her up like a real front-tier belle, but even as she is sprayed with Paris perfume, Jane cannot forget that able Gable. She watches him close while he drives Ryan's cattle from Texas to Montana. Come Sioux or stampede, jayhawker or dust devil, nothing bothers Clark-except, of course, the fact that he has to act. But like most of his parts, this one requires nothing much but his anxious little smirk. On the other hand, he seems comfortably conscious (as moviegoers will be awkwardly aware) that the winds which howl about...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
Partnership. "We have partnership. Modern developments in the field of communications have drawn nations physically together so that, as never before, what concerns one concerns many. It was always wrong to operate on the basis of 'each for himself and the devil take the hindmost.' Now it is also stupid. The United States now has partnership association for security with 44 nations. The result is to create a measure of security which no one, not even the strongest, could achieve on a purely national basis...
This year Radio Evangelist Michaux. who calls his sect the "Gospel Spreading Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding heart spilled crimson liquid on twelve female "penitent sinners" while the choir sang Fountain Filled with Blood. The third (Jesus...
Young Törless found the frustrations of growing up something he could explain to neither his doting parents nor the stuffy members of the school staff. That old devil sex was getting troublesome, too, and a visit to a local prostitute only added to his confused ideas. When a couple of sadistic pals decide to make a butt of an effeminate fellow student, Törless is both disgusted and attracted. Up in a dark attic, the victim is systematically beaten to a physical and emotional pulp...