Word: devilments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will J. Cameron, Chicago dentist and inventor of surgical instruments, is an amateur anthropologist. He believes that Roy Chapman Andrews, hunting in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia for traces of man's origin, is astray, because "in a place like the Gobi it takes the ingenuity of the devil to survive." Obviously the statement is a rhetorical exaggeration by Dr. Cameron. The Gobi was once a lake, once a swamp. Dr. Cameron's idea is that man as a distinct anthropoid began in the withering Kalahari Desert of British Bechuanaland...
Gullah contains many strange idioms and words such as buckra (meaning white man or devil). According to Dr. Greet, Gullah and the language of Cape Cod are the only genuine dialects within...
Among the most important and valuable of the Quartos from the White collection are editions of "Love's Labor Lost", London, 1598; "Romeo and Juliet", 1599; "The Sonnets", 1609; "The Merchant of Venice", 1600; and "The Merry Devil of Edmonton", one of the attributed plays, published in London...
...modern theatre began as a form for sermons as it is now a subject for them. Processions, pageants, performances -this was a slow, natural sequence. Not be fore the 1 5th century did audiences, growing more interested in the character of the customary devil than that of Christ, cause these moralities to lose their holy character. Dramatic interpretations of the gospels are not yet without their spiritual value. Last week, in Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury, England, there was performed The Coming of Christ, a nativity play written in the antique tradition by famed Poet John Masefield...
Dorian Gray. This is a peculiarly stupid dramatization of Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde's novel, about a youthful rake whose orgies cause a portrait of his pretty face to become more and more hideous. WTallis Clark was good as the Devil...