Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...defense as Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary. Having bossed ambassadors, he would know how to be one. It was felt that those Puritan Americans would like Halifax's deeply religious nature. This devotion, which bred the conviction in him that Adolf Hitler is a creature of the devil, had erased any traces of appeasement and made him one of the most unswerving workers for the eventual triumph of righteousness...
Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover...
...Adamson replied. "I remember one show we did with the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. Everyone was sore s the devil because we brought in two ringers, Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda. That was the first time they met; later on they got married...
...terms of economics. What are the economic and ideological arguments for intervention? They are, he says, 'stripped to their bare essentials," straight imperialism-our foreign trade- seven per cent of our national income. One may picture American leaders shouting in unison: "Get in there boys and fight like the devil for that big, juicy seven per cent!" Any consideration of a free intellectual life, the kind of life that Harvard and other great American universities uphold today, any regard for religious liberty for which this country stands four-square, any consideration of a democratic government limited by law is simply...
...tradition. He can boast of rising at 5 a.m. (aged 12) and walking half a mile through the fields of Aberdeenshire to shine 20 pairs of shoes. He did odd jobs at the age of 9, taught himself shorthand at 13, worked 60 hours as a printer's devil for 75? a week at 14. In the 46 years since then, B. C. Forbes has made a career of discovering other Alger heroes. Worming the life stories out of some 500 men, he has splashed them reverently across the continent in his own and Hearst publications. Charles M. Schwab...