Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simon Elwes did not realize it but a seed had been planted in him. At the time, however, he all but forgot the experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half...
During the day, Mrs. Kyner tramps through Rangely's muddy streets selling ads, gathering local news. She calls herself "manager, editor, reporter, errand boy and devil." Often, while writing her stories and editorials, Mrs. Kyner is interrupted by the profane shouts of the town drunks. Rangely has no jail; the deputy sheriff handcuffs prisoners, nails the cuffs to a pole outside the Rangely News office...
Last week the Italian city of Milan buzzed with rumors of a secret society, the "Demons," under the leadership of a "Devil's Prelate," which practised the Black Mass in lonely country houses and Milan hotel rooms. The bare fact: for at least the 15th time in five years, consecrated hosts had been stolen from a church near Milan. (Authorities believe such thefts occur frequently without being reported to the police; also, that old women and children are bribed to carry hosts out in their mouths. Valuable jeweled pyxes, in which the wafers are kept, have not been taken...
...Prynne, a remarried divorcee on her honeymoon, she runs into her former husband, in a peculiarly identical circumstance, and complication set in. By the time the scene has changed from Southern France to Paris, they have started "afresh as two quite different people," leaving their respective spouses to the devil and fortunes of roulette. The pugilistie love affair that follows involves much description, mainly of a ringside nature; but consistent with the classic tenets of comedy, all ends happily...
Political bossism had also flourished in those devil-take-the-hindmost eras. Clevelanders, always politically alert, had always fought it off eventually. Now the average Clevelander was beginning to feel that there was no domination. Even the most inveterate civic-luncheon addicts could offer no guess as to which of a dozen men was most influential in his town's affairs. The man in Cleveland's streets did not even know who was the town's richest man. It did not seem to matter. The composite Clevelander was beginning, to get the idea that...