Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real little devil, like all boys," his mother said, smiling. "But he has the genius, and that makes a difference. It makes it all right--don't you think...
...Kyes's first piece of fan mail after he took over his broad oak desk in the Pentagon last February was a postcard from a Tennessean who, after seeing Kyes's picture in the paper, wrote: "You look to me as though you could spit in the devil's eye." Big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), craggy Roger Kyes* makes a similar impression on people who encounter him face to face. After meeting him for the first time, a Pentagonian remarked: "He looks like the kind...
With its royalty and rogues, affairs of state and of heart, and conquests military and romantic, Fanfan the Tulip bulges with color. Gerard (Devil in the Flesh) Philipe bounces through the title role with zest, leaping from balconies, rooftops and cliffs with the greatest of ease, riding a white charger to the rescue of fair damsels, besting his enemies with fists, swords and guns and altogether making an entirely likable scamp. As the main object of his affections, Italian Actress Gina Lollobrigida is so shapely that she seems to bulge from the screen in the best 3-D style. Directed...
...Devil with the Groceries. The common touch makes The Fortunate Man a readable book about what at first glance might seem to be dull people punching it out with life in a dull world. Jimmy got his start in a wholesale greengrocer's office in Covent Garden. Henderson, Grieve & Co. didn't know it, but this smiling, stocky braggart was going to make things pop for all of them. He started with the secretary, Florrie. In no time he had seduced her. Calling at her dismal slum home to tell her he would not marry her, Jimmy...
...Jimmy was more than just a devil with the women. He had intelligence, and the brashness to throw it around. With his smiling ruthlessness he went up, up, up in Henderson & Grieve, was soon running it. When he tired of Madge, he turned her over to Henderson, and Henderson was grateful. Jimmy got rich sponging on wealthy women and outsmarting timid competitors. By the mid-'30s he was a big man, but for his restless ambition not nearly big enough. He took Madge back when she picked up a big chunk of money as a rich...