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...James Thomas, Detroit Methodist Episcopal minister, had a very pithy statement ready: "In this case I should say, the thought to be applied is, that the Lord gave it, though the devil brought it, so the league should keep...
...Sebastian Kresge resented being indirectly referred to by a Methodist Episcopal clergyman as the devil, if he felt that ingratitude should forfeit charity, he did not allow his actions to express his feelings. Instead, he presented $725,000 to the Detroit Methodist Children's Home Society, with which to build an orphanage for small children. It was to be a new and charming orphanage, with small cottages instead of wards and corridors, with married couples, when possible, to act as father and mother to children who have none of their own. This gift was accepted like the other, with...
Boston is cautious about its entertainment, but its inhabitants came in fashionable crowds to see the whites of Miss Garden's eyes rolling about with passion, pleasure or dismay. As Fanny Legrand, in a devil-red gown, they saw her gobble up the heart of innocent Jean Gaussin. With ill-disguised delight, they saw her track this peasant boy to his lodgings and take up residence therein...
Married. Eugene Dieudonne, recently pardoned life-term convict who escaped from Devil's Island; to his former wife who divorced him 16 years ago, at his own command, when he was first sentenced; in Paris...
MANY tales have been written from the first wanderings of Aeneas to the romantic adventures of the Sea Devil of the World War, but few have truly portrayed the life a sailor leads. Conrad has written of the romance and horrors of the sea, but in "The Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole...