Word: devilment
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...Columbiad, just issued, has given universal satisfaction, and is considered the best publication of that nature ever issued. Some of the typographical errors were very amusing, especially those in the Athletic Records, where that most stupid of mortals, a printer's devil, has made a Hercules, Jr., throw a hammer "36 sec. ; " a bicycle ride two miles in " 13 ft., " and the running broad jump, a marvel...
...Additional Curates' Society, the Epidemiological Society, the Mendicity Society and the Royal Female Naval School. Perhaps the suggestion in this last name for providing useful employment for the royal princesses might be well utilized. The artists have a club called the Mauls, and the lawyers are called the Devil's Own. A contemporary expresses the wish that the devil may get his own at the earliest convenient opportunity...
What tempted thee? The devil tempted thee
...jumped as if he had been shot, and cried, "The devil!" so emphatically that he frightened the honest Hibernian half out of her wits. I quieted her by revealing in a whisper his identity, and told her that I thought from his actions be did not like children, - that great men never did. He frowned savagely thereupon, and, turning his back to us all, gazed persistently at the flying landscape until we arrived at our destination. Then I linked my arm in his, and held him firmly, although I saw he was in a poetic frenzy, for he was swearing...
Yale - The devil's favorite resort on earth...