Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listed by the President). At one point in the debate, Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin O'Konski, soaring high on oratorical wings, nearly persuaded the House to refuse $50 million in aid to Yugoslavia. Cried O'Konski: "I'd rather appropriate $1 billion to the Devil!" Only last-minute pleas by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin saved the grant to Yugoslavia...
...exhaustion, served on countless political committees, worried about his growing family, he rose enthusiastically to important occasions. When news of Benedict Arnold's treachery arrived, Peale created a two-faced effigy of the traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows...
Burly Cinematenor Mario [The Great Caruso'] Lanza, a devil-may-care sort of swashbuckler with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because...
Personal Commitment. "Without overlooking the evils of Communism, we must still reject the devil theory in history . . . We think the basic assumption of many of our fellow Americans as to the location of evil is wrong . . . Man's curse lies in his worship of the work of his hands, in his glorification of material things . . . It is not an idolatry of which the Communists alone are guilty. We believe the real choice lies between continuing to deal with international problems on the old basis of military power and attempting to deal with them on the new and revolutionary basis...
There's the Devil to pay these nights just off Broadway on the stage of Manhattan's 46th Street Theater, but a sentimental Washington baseball fan who has bartered his soul for a .524 batting average gives every sign of welshing on the deal. To secure his investment in this "wife-loving louse," Satan calls in one of his ablest assistants, a flame-haired siren named Lola...