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...uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone how to make him listen to reason. Do not read this book tonight if you must catch an early train in the morning. It makes The Bat (famed play...
Halleluiah! Everyone was joyful. Happy times were coming. King Solomon was coming. The devil was a deadbeat now. Halleluiah ! Sang some...
...Lucky Devil. In the days of Wallace Reid, they had a habit of putting him in a racing automobile whenever ideas dried up. The people went home happy. Applying this same formula to the mildly similar Richard Dix, one finds that human nature still reacts feverishly...
These young people, "about 35 of them," had but recently discovered the awful importance of their immortal souls. Temptations beset them. Religion moved them, but the Devil was never far away. So they banded together, pledged themselves in aid one another in the Christian life. The idea spread. Hundreds, then thousands, then millions joined their band, n nearly every Protestant church today, he bulletin board announces: "Christian Endeavor Meeting, Wednesday [or it may be Sunday] at 7 [or it may be 8]." At the meeting will be prayers...
...wheels drowsily draws on his outlandish costume-alpaca coat, shabby policeman's trousers and an opera hat- and hopes that the new day may bring him an audience for his weird sermon proving that Negroes are not human beings. The barker for a tent show called The She-Devil clears his throat...