Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have any more. They wouldn't give you any, if they could get away with it. You have to sign your name, and if they can't read it, they give you a hard time, but if you print it, they ask you what the devil you're trying to get away with. You can take your little book and go sit in a manger, but you can't take it out of the building until it's too late to do anything much with it. But it's really not too bad--the men's rooms have ventilation...
Bethke began to learn about type at the age of eleven in Groton, S. Dak., when he got a job as printer's devil on the local paper, the Groton Independent. His tutor was Shop Foreman John Thoeny, who now owns the paper. Bethke worked before and after school and all day Saturday for a salary of $3 a week. He began to learn hand composition, then linotype, layout and makeup. After graduating from high school, he worked as editor of the paper for a year before going to Dakota Wesleyan University. During summers he toured the Midwest...
...Devil's Smokescreen. "Dancing in itself is no sin. If dancing were a sin, every bishop in every see in the world would forbid it ... But the prohibition of dancing can cause those very sins we try to avoid." The cardinal, who has forbidden all dancing in his diocese, even in private homes, frowned...
...good reputation of neighbors rarely repent, and even more rarely do anything to restore what they have taken . . . Without belittling the dangers deriving fromlust, we should watch out even more for the dangers of breaking the Seventh and Eighth Commandments. I fear it is a trick of the Devil to call attention to minor scandals and throw a smokescreen over sins that are much worse...
...Olympic ski jump, Vag watched the American team practice. There was something devil-may-care about these skiers. Whenever one landed in a heap of snow at the bottom of the jump, he would shake it off and bravely limp to a group of enthralled girls. Later in the evening everyone within hearing distance of the Olympians knew about the terrific headwinds that had cut fifty or so feet off each one's final jump. Vag felt foolish after he said he had not felt a breath...