Word: deviled
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...women like their own to be their slaves. Pistol shots; and one intruder is dead, the other enamored of Mugette. A voodoo scene, and Mugette begs a charm to win her lover, follows her most savage instincts until, despairingly, she turns to God. The wrath of the devil-worshipers and then - the Quadroon Ball, graceful, gay at first, then bloody, riotous. M. Brusard and the lover from over the mountains are killed. Only Mugette is left, loverless, as completely, as inevitably alone as only her racial impurity could make her. So did Laurence Stallings conceive his share of Deep River...
...rules England?" asked a Stuart satirist. "The King rules England, of course." "But who rules the King?" "The Duke." "Who rules the Duke?" "The Devil." And so it is public opinion that rules in a democracy, and propaganda makes public opinion, and the politicians make the propaganda...
...legend concerned with one of these Apostles [Judas Iscariot] has caused great mischief. That it ever gained credence does not speak well for men's acumen. . . . There is no exaggeration in saying that this legend, which sets a devil up against the figure of light for the sake of an effective background, has caused hundreds of thousands of human beings to be tortured and murdered...
Although there are now five one-time marines in the House, David W. Stewart is the first "devil dog" to occupy a seat in the Senate. His term is a brief one, beginning actively when Congress reconvenes in December and ending on March...
...Devil's Island (Pauline Frederick). "A Drama of the White Hot Passions of the Isle of Lost Men" shrieks its press agent. Although the temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...