Word: deviling
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...cannot become a real condition unless the grandstands drop a little of their Nordic earnestness, and exchange a little of their burning fervor for the more suave encounters of Latin contestants. So long as the spectators fill football with the same excitement with which the Pilgrims fought the devil, so long as they feel that it is a dishonor to lose and a matter of conscience to win, the same rigid regime of fasting and praying will train the povitiates for self-dedication to sport. When a football match becomes the amusement of a holiday afternoon, when the bleachers abandon...
Prussia of Frederick the Great, every man was allowed to 'seek Heaven in his own fashion.' The same principle prevailed under the old Kaiser. But in the Germany of William II, no man, in his own fashion or otherwise, was permitted to go to the devil...
...their positive belief that everyone goes either to Heaven or Hell makes them argue in favor of capital punishment. At the time the time the Leopold-Loeb case was going on, I heard Doctor Straton from his own pulpit give as a reason for the horrible crime that the Devil had possessed the two boys...
...opening speech of his campaign at Idaho Falls was typical of his attitude-prepared to give everyone (devil, fool or solon) his due, and to take his constitutents' votes-for Borah...
With the magnificent gesture peculiar to him, Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door...