Word: devilishe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...matter of common knowledge that "Steamship" Hall, the tortuous twirler will occupy the box for the editors. His devilish delivery will be snapped up with precision and nonchalance by Ted Reynolds. The rest of the team will line up as follows, with possible changes at the eleventh hour: Stiles, s.s.; Fenn, r.f.; Lewis, 3b.; Kelley, r.f.; Edgerton, 2b.; Kennedy, r.f.; Baker, 1b.; Dixon, r.f.; Graves, l.f.; Culbert, r.f.; Thomas, c.f.; Fry, r.f.; Cook, r.f.; Williams, r.f.; Seymour, r.f.; Foreman, r.f.; Benjamin, r.f. Ingram, as umpire, will aid considerably in the overwhelming victory...
...announced at the mass meeting last evening, some enterprising vendor has estimated our enthusiasm over the Princeton game in terms of dollars and cents and has introduced into our midst a devilish device for producing a diabolical din. When used in sufficient number these instruments of noise, known as "clappers", are capable of producing enough sound to drown out the best organized cheering or the most effective singing. They are the type of noise-producer that a great crowd going to a professional baseball game desires to employ to "rattle" the opposing pitcher and to give the favorite team...
...familiar type in our midst is the case-hardened gambler, the grimly smiling sport-lover who courts Dame Fortune all he can, the man who confesses with a devilish expression that he "likes to take a sporting chance". He need no longer go in town for the tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada...