Word: deviling
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...these heirs to a glorious past and spirants to an even more glorious future greet each other from Hong Kong and Havana, from Beacon Hill and Devil's Gulch, what a dramatic moment demanding the imagination of a Hugo to appreciate! As East meets West and North meets South, is there no master's pen to do justice to the event? There...
...student at Harvard is at first bewildered by the size of the University, by the confusion of new faces, by the mass of pamphlets and papers dumped upon him, and by the willingness of everyone he meets to give advice and then leave him to go to the devil in his own way. A few weeks of the routine of college life will breed familiarity and confidence. But it sometimes happens that by the time a Freshman comes out of his fog, he finds himself swamped by the cumulative force of neglected studies. A Freshman's first duty, therefore...
...United Mine Workers of America with the same abandon that William the Absolute destroyed the treaty which protected the neutrality of Belgium. Mr. Hammond, by his vain mutterings, has brought the present controversy into the realm of political equations. By the same token he has mixed 'the devil's stew for the forthcoming Congress to sup." From Hazelton, Pa., it was reported that rats in schoolhouses were annoying women and girls. The explanation: when mules are taken from the mines, rats are deprived of grain and consequently come to the surface...
...psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded as a great American novelist, especially for Senator North (1900), The Conqueror (1902), Perch of the Devil...
Mourning thousands stood tense and sorrow-stricken in the rays of the setting sun. All eyes were bent upon impromptu catafalque where lay the body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra...