Word: deviling
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...sought for Hades in the Sun, in Mars, or in the Moon, where no one could conceivably send them on a party or conquest or exploration. The reliable accounts furnished by Homer and Virgil have been largely disregarded, although as late as the thirteenth century Dante found that the devil was still doing business at the old stand in spite of the fact that Inferno seems to have been going through the Glacial Period just then. But now science has rediscovered what the ancients knew all the time...
More, by studying such columns you can buy a Wire-Walking Male Dog, a Live Alligator, a Carrousel, the Lord's Prayer on a Pinhead, a Two-Headed Child, a Devil's Bowling Alley. Opportunity plus...
...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
...Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw, promised for production last season by the Theatre Guild, but crowded out by Back to Methuselah, will be given at the Garrick two weeks hence. Basil Sydney will have the role of Dick Dudgeon...
...where Mercury left off, and still the people looked on it with awe. Finally Leonardo da Vinci, a mortal, decided that men could fly as well as gods and birds. To his endeavors people turned a deaf ear and a superstitious frame of mind, alternately calling him god and devil. He was classed with the witches and their broomstick flying machines. After his failure men gave up trying to propel themselves through the air by their own force and resorted to the aid of the new invention, the machine. With this they have conquered the laws of gravitation--with little...