Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glens of Antrim past the Mountains of Mourne. G.N.R. trains cross the border between Northern Ireland and the south up to 50 times a day. Despite the anguished howls of a clergyman who shouted at its first run: "You are transporting the souls of otherwise good folk to the devil," Irishmen, both Catholic and Protestant, have ridden the Great Northern's 543 miles of track for 77 years with no more protection than a penny tossed into the Boyne for good luck as they passed over...
...electric lights in the house. The men of the sect (an offshoot of the Mennonites) wear wide-brimmed black hats, plain black suits, and beards; the women, plain bonnets and voluminous clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide them from their neighbors, but when they do, outsiders get a glimpse of the strange...
...that "J. Pierpont Morgan owned the Episcopal Church, Andrew Mellon had the Presbyterians in his vest pocket, and as for the Baptists-well, hadn't Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller's kept preacher, once said: 'Personally, I dread the thought of collectivism ... as I would dread the devil...
...Devil Sex. Up to this point, Author Buck handles her material nicely, bringing the core of religion steadily closer to the reader. Then, suddenly, she gives out. The conclusion she wants to reach is that neither dollars nor Christian dogma can bridge the U.S.-Indian gap; there must be intermarriage between the two peoples and agreement that all religions are equally valid, equally tenable. It is sex which prevents her from putting over this conclusion properly. The old devil has hovered on the fringes all through Come, My Beloved, and when he hears the magic word "intermarriage," he hops boldly...
...continued to scold and thunder for the ways of righteousness. Last week in his Senate office, just two days after his 73rd birthday, he collapsed with a heart attack. In the hospital a few hours later he died peacefully, in his sleep. "No man need fear God or the devil," he once said, "if he tells the truth...