Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from being an enthusiastic inhabitant of fire, as the ancients believed, the salamander must be moist, dies if it is even thoroughly dried out. Though no fire-eater, the lizard-like little creature is, however, something of a devil. He secretes in his skin a milky poison which causes most of his potential enemies to leave him severely alone. This skin poison is thought to be harmless...
HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...