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...world, the flesh and the devil in a gorgeous State...
...pounds, my porridge is pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks. ... I am like some frantic baker in the inferno kneading a batch of iron bread for the devil's breakfast...
...Devil in the Cheese (produced in Pasadena a year ago). In Tom Cushing's play, a piece of cheese before bedtime brings on a good dream in which the secret chambers of a girl's mind are explored. Everywhere, the seeker finds the radiant image of her lover enshrined in fancy as President of the U. S., single-handed conqueror of South Sea Island tribes, hero in all things. This sublimated suitor is, in reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action...
...Sforza and Medici. When the Prince was translated into English many an Anglo-Saxon was appalled that so many truths about the baseness of men and how to play upon it should ever have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims: 1) "It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong and to make use of it or not according to necessity." 2) "Men are so simple . . . that...
Simultaneously, British notables, headed by Director Harry Price of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, pondered the antics of coins, which were invisibly pitched across a room where they were observing, under strict control conditions, one Eleoncre Zugan, 13, cheerful, chunky Rumanian wench who had announced: "The Devil has come with me to London. The Devil is very pleased to come to London, for he hopes to find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother...