Word: deviling
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Fortunately, the attitude that we're a little lower than the devil, and not to be exposed to the bare truths of human nature, but rather to be deceived into goodness by wooden heroes and lay figures, seems to be passing away. But, even worse, the other extreme has been reached. Everything good is questionable; and the bad is not bad enough. We live in an age of debunkment. In athletics, a golden crown has replaced the laurel wreath; the stage is obscene; art is acrobatic; music is barbaric; institutions are enslaving; life is a long slippery rope with...
Europe's "honest broker," French Premier Pierre Laval, achieved one of the outstanding triumphs of post-War diplomacy last week, and a Gallic jest. After enjoying a repast in one of Paris' best restaurants and paying like the very devil for it, with 10% "for service" on top, M. Laval was approached by the fawning Patron who murmured, "Perhaps M. le Président would pen a precious thought in our Golden Book...
...care of older men. The church becomes too conservative and is prone to lose the sympathy of the younger generation." Urging that the church outdo Communists in pronouncing against war, Dr. Trexler deftly drew a parallel to make conservatives squirm: "Christ, seeing young Communists helping to cast out the devil of war, would again say, Forbid them not, as he did when John said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbade him because he followeth...
Thus was illustrated the pull-devil-pull-baker tension which gives a desperate organization the outward appearance of inactive somnolence. The NRA was not an unmixed blessing to the A. F. of L., for it brought into the Federation a horde of workers from hitherto unorganized, straight-line production industries. Result is serious factionalism, with Mr. Green, most of the 17 members of his all-powerful executive council and the oldtime, conservative craft unionists on one side and on the other a mass of younger, more radical workers from the modern assembly line. Impasse caused by the conflicting policies...
...while the Freshman is treated with this amused disdain on one side, he is overwhelmed with solicitations on the other. No wonder the poor devil does not know what to expect...