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Word: devilment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same man who accepted Communist support in 1946, just ten years after Frankling Roosevelt repudiated it. He is the same man characterized by Time as a "liberal" phantom only last June and who now bites the hand that inadvertently fed him. It seems that conservatives applauded while the devil danced alone, and like bashful little girls, were reluctant when partner time came. To study the equivocal words of such respectable Republicans as Saltonstall and Flanders, it is painfully clear that McCarthy has been and still is uncomfortably regarded as a card to show when he's calling Democrats traitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR YEARS OF UNREASON, | 6/2/1954 | See Source »

...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would be to cut his salary. He led scratch armies to victory all the way from Nanking to Equatorial Africa, but he never came near to winning his private battle with the world, the flesh and the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In a Terrible Country | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...only possible criticism of this droll and well conceived show is that Miss Lollabrigia is too little in view. Sharing Philippe's dreams with two other women (this makes the picture a fantasy) she has a smaller part than in Fan Fan or Beat The Devil. Fortunately, the tiny amount of time she is on the screen is matched by the costume she wears. As a luscious houri, Miss Lollabirgia is well outfitted for balmy desert breezes, and is also quite logically clad for a scene in a bath...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beauties of the Night | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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