Word: deviled
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...says that the little devil who takes our husbands away from us and makes the cold nights colder and the long nights longer is coming to us again," answered great Mrs. Maria Mickiewinski to her friend little Mrs. Anna Grigorovitch...
...organization will be to stamp out profanity, whether spoken or written. The use of such terms as "damn" or "devil", will be considered a crime of the same degree as bootlegging, and punished accordingly. All literature of the past will be carefully expurgated, that the rising generation may be free from the danger of using strong language: for the influence of the classics upon the youth of the present is profound. The organization will not be disbanded until swearing, like the use of intoxicating liquors, is stamped out. "Hell" as Samuel Johnson once remarked, "is paved with good intentions...
...these casualty rates, though it caused much hard feeling at the time, was a good thing in bringing about alterations in the competitive system. Slavery has been abolished; compets now have a few rights as students which their bosses must respect. No longer is the compets between the devil and the deep sea, endeavoring to satisfy both his manager and his professor...
Bless my stars he works "only eight hours a day", he has "money to burn", he "throws to the winds his money and himself". Now I ask you, where in the devil do we get the right to pass such a judgement on a chap who, if nothing else, is at least a producer How many hours a day do we actually work--if mastering usless data that we take care to forget as quickly as possible can be called work? And how do most of us spend our leisure time which the working youth ought to consecrate...
...fine gentlemen, it is not we who should object to their "foot-loose, devil-may-care attitude". If they took an example from us they would throw up their jobs and loaf all day instead of a few hours. How does the bible put it? Pluck the mote out of your own eye first, or something like that. I don't know. I have been too busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it. EDWIN SEAVER...