Word: devilments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin, Riding the Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons; and Commentator Quincy Howe is moderator on the current events programs...
Said Patton in his best grand-fellow manner: "To get things going, we've got to compromise with the devil a little...
...ride around the farm, The flies so numerous, they did swarm. One chanced to bite him on the thigh; The devil take the blue-tail...
...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...
...behest of this alter ego, the girl kills her fiance. Then she goes toward the chair almost eagerly, in her desire to liquidate her inner devil-while the lawyer-lover, an ingenious psychiatrist (Edmund Gwenn), and the governor of the state stand by, wondering what to do. The psychiatrist finally does plenty...