Word: devilments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step into House chairmanships: Appropriations-New York's arch-conservative John Taber, loudmouthed, long-winded but an expert on government finance; Ways & Means-Minnesota's bullet-headed Harold Knutson, small-minded and vindictive, who believes that the graduated income tax and the excess profits tax are the devil's work; Foreign Affairs-New Jersey's white-haired Charles A. Eaton, delegate to the San Francisco Conference which set up U.N.; Banking & Currency-Michigan...
Position Taken. "You know," Ed Martin once remarked, "there's never been anything colorful about me. I've just had to work like the devil." This is an accurate appraisal. The most colorful thing about him is his Army cussing. When the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa., wanted to make him an elder, he demurred. "I take a highball and cuss a little," he explained. They elected him anyhow. Actually he drinks very little, smokes not at all. His gravelly throat is the result of his gassing...
Gilbert (1925) and Flesh and the Devil with Garbo...
Angel on My Shoulder presents Paul Muni as a murdered gangster and Claude Rains as the Devil. Aiming at satire with a touch of uplift, the picture succeeds in being vaguely grisly and definitely foolish. Actor Muni's natural dignity, which prevents him from appearing ridiculous in embarrassing surroundings, is all that saves the movie from disaster...
...Faustus" is the oft-used tale of the towered scholar, who, for want of lascivious pleasure and hedonistic satiety, sells his soul to the Devil. As written, the irony to the play lies in Faustus' remaining in character and using his newly-bought power for intellectual purpose, despite the sensual opportunities offered. For the sake of "theatre," the Tributary group has avoided the aspect of introspection into character, and has played the vehicle for its spectacle. But in Elizabethan drama, interpretations are innumerable, and last night's offering was effectively valid...