Word: devilled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among the ignorant rabble a fearful rumor spread: the fact of three misses at close range was the work not of God but of the Devil! An assumption grew that the Death of Baron Strickland would have been sustained with a minimum of sorrow by Archbishop Caruana and his superiors...
...DEVIL'S HOLIDAY?A Chicago manicurist takes a farmboy for a buggy ride (TIME...
...more than a decade after it was founded in 1900, Smart Set was a parlor table favorite with its familiar cover design of a man and woman coyly greeting each other while a cupid and black devil played havoc with their hearts. Its most startling upheaval occurred in 1914, after an enforced change of owners. Eltinge F. Warner, publisher of Field & Stream was made publisher and Mencken & Nathan found themselves editors. Under that regime many a now-famed author (examples: James Joyce, Lord Dunsany) was given his first U. S. audience. Others who were early recognized, if not actually discovered...
...DEVIL'S HOLIDAY?A Chicago manicurist takes a farmboy for a buggy ride (TIME...
...DEVIL'S HOLIDAY?The old story of the country boy and city girl made palatable by the writing and direction of Edmund Goulding (TIME...