Word: deviled
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...gallantly as unsolicitedly taken the occasion to rush into print and explain exactly how they feel as to relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...
...theatrical producers, tobacco magnate and movie corporations simultaneously condemn these maps as empty boasting, one has difficulty in understanding just what conditions actually exist. The "antis" are proceeding along three lines of attack: successes in one gild over similar reverses in others; and in the same way, the "Devil's Disciples" camouflage their Western defeats with their Eastern triumphs...
Apparently, the devil has inspired the amusement people with the wit to call for referenda, for everywhere except in South Dakota these popular ballots have been favorable to their cause. The "decline" and "de-generation" of Rome, caused, as Mr. Tarkington has shown, by Sunday gladiatorial combats, have failed to impress America with the importance of one day of absolute holiness. The Lord's Day Alliance is peculiarly fortunate; it will never...
...charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle. But, in spite of evil machinations, virtue triumphs at last...
...DEVIL'S DISCIPLE?Bernard Shaw's version of rebellion?half psychology, half melodrama. Sophisticated snorers had best instruct the usher to wake them before the last act in which Roland Young's performance is more than worth any half hour's sleep...