In " The Right Stuff ," Tom Wolfe writes that test pilots referred to astronauts as " Spam in a can ," and notes, "Astronaut meant 'star voyager,' but in fact the poor devil would be a guinea pig."
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Crucifixion and torture, Episodes 230, 28, 29, 210, 93, 29 If you don't share Ramsay's taste for sadism, skip his slicing, dicing and psychosexual mutilation of Theon, mostly while the poor devil is strapped to a saltire cross.
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But to disenthrone himself, to descend to the condition of a poor devil!
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Poor Devil (Spanish:Pobre diablo) is a 1940 Mexican comedy drama film directed by José Benavides hijo. It stars Fernando Soler.
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I've seen him bullyrag a poor devil in the box until he caused him to say just what he wanted.
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Dryden: For you to say, sir. Allenby: No, it's > not. I've got orders to obey, thank God! Not like that poor devil - he's > riding the whirlwind.
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"Signs", Greenfield Review 1, Spring 1970. "Infidelity", "Refrain", "For the Poor Devil Manfred Bock", "My God I Thought", "How Many Sons", "Washing Windows", "Confidence", "A Love", Modern Poetry in Translation, London, 6, 1970.
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Pobre diabla (Poor Devil) is a Peruvian telenovela which starred Angie Cepeda, Salvador del Solar, Arnaldo André and María Cristina Lozada. It was produced by América Producciónes and broadcast on América Televisión in 2000.
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The Life of Muhammad. Oxford: Oxford University Press. took pity on him and asked: "You poor devil, doesn't any Quraysh owe you protection?" Sa'd then remembered to call out the names of Jubayr ibn Mutim and Al-Harith ibn Harb.
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The Churchyard was enlarged around 1851. At the consecration, a young man named John Toplis was present; and when the ceremony was over he said, “I wonder what poor devil will be buried there first”. Soon after reaching home, he became afflicted with smallpox and died after three days.
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Napoleon on board the Bellepheron A famous Punch cartoon based on the painting Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon, exhibited in 1880 by Sir William Quiller Orchardson, had the caption "He's utterly convinced that he's being exiled to St. HELEN'S, poor devil!". This was a pun on Saint Helena, the South Atlantic island to which Napoleon was exiled.
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In Paris, a priest makes his way through pre-dawn fog into a prison courtyard where a guillotine is being tested. A guard abruptly rouses prisoner Jean Picard (Errol Flynn). His appeal has failed. The warden (Art Smith) explains to Commissioner of Police LaFarge ( Douglass Dumbrille ): If they warned the poor devil beforehand he would spend the night “turning to ice”.
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When he did not have enough to supply all, he begged for more from others in behalf of the distressed. Once he carried a sick cripple, whom he had found on the way, to his home on his shoulders. A frivolous young man met him, and asked him mockingly, "what poor devil is that you are carrying there on your back?" Modestini replied calmly.
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It is considered an unlucky day to have guests or go visiting. Hakka villagers in rural Hong Kong in the 1960s called it the Day of the Poor Devil and believed everyone should stay at home.Berkowitz and Brandauer, Folk Religion in an Urban Setting, Hong Kong, 1969, p. 49. This is also considered a propitious day to visit the temple of the God of Wealth and have one's future told.
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Modern statue of Peter Gaiß, Weinstadt The Poor Conrad (, also Armer Kunz) was the name of several secret peasants' leagues, which in 1514 revolted against the rule of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg. The rebels adopted the term used by the nobility to mock them, meaning "poor fellow" or "poor devil". The battle flag of the rebels depicted a farmer lying in front of a cross, under the words Der arme Conrad.
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Published in the same year, The Devil, Poor Devil! is a satirical fantasy about how the Devil's power is undermined by modern rationalism.Brian Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, Scarecrow Press,Plymouth. 2005. (p. 56) Burdekin's best-known novel, Swastika Night, was published in 1937 under the Murray Constantine pseudonym, and republished in 1985 in England and the U.S. Reflecting Burdekin's analysis of the masculine element in fascist ideology, Swastika Night depicts a future in which the world has been divided between two militaristic powers: the Nazis and the Japanese.
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Filming took two weeks and was financed by Russell himself – the budget was "peanuts... about 100 pounds" he said. Russell said Quadros ""was delightful, no trouble at all – as long as I gave her scary whirlwind rides in an old, broken-down Morris 8 I had she was as good as gold. I remember she fell over on the steps of the Albert Memorial at one point and broke her hand, the poor devil. In most of the film, she has her right hand turned away from the camera.
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Beurling's Spitfire VC in which he shot down Doglio, on 27 July 1942 Fl. Sgt. George "Screwball" Beurling, from 249 Sq., first scored hits on Sergente Faliero Gelli's aircraft, who later crash landed on Gozo, and soon after shot down Doglio's C.202 (MM 9042), who was waggling his wings to warn his fellow pilots of Spitfires closing "head-on". "The poor devil simply blew to pieces in the air", Beurling recalled the following year, writing the book Malta Spitfire, together with journalist Leslie Roberts.Beurling and Roberts 1944 Flight Sgt.
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On the way, he murdered several men in various altercations, eventually committing premeditated murder. Forced to flee to avoid arrest and vigilante justice, Helm teamed up with six men with whom he confided that, in his past, he had eaten all, or part, of his murder victims. "Many's the poor devil I've killed, at one time or another... and the time has been that I've been obliged to feed on some of 'em." This boastful allusion is the first report of cannibalism on the part of Boone Helm.
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When Chaffrey absconds to the Continent with money he has embezzled from his clients, Lewisham agrees to move into his shabby Clapham house to look after Ethel and Ethel's elderly mother (Chaffrey's abandoned wife). Wells's friend Sir Richard Gregory wrote to him after reading the novel: "I cannot get that poor devil Lewisham out of my mind head, and I wish I had an address, for I would go to him and rescue him from the miserable life in which you leave him."Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne (1973), The Time Traveller: the Life of H.G. Wells London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 152.
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The defensive walls were rebuilt, the watchtower restored to something like its original height, and a new gate tower was built to give entrance to the courtyard. Interior decorations were added to hallways and rooms, depicting the coats of arms of various families related to the Palmieris; a new church, replacing the old one no longer extant, was built and adorned with an altarpiece painted in the Renaissance style by Giuseppe Palmieri in 1853, showing the Madonna and Child flanked by two saints with the castle of Montalto in the background; a fresco was added by Antonio Palmieri on the entry tower, over the Sienese 'arco ribassato', depicting Saint Martin giving his cloak to a ‘poor devil’.
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Sister Zoe, a nun by the name of Maddelena Luisa, wrote: "This blow has hit me hard; I knew that the poor devil was a hothead, but I never imagined he would go this far". Even a Cardinal, on January 4, 1861, wrote: "It will not be the last tidying up of the corrupt, the madman coming to his senses" (translated from Bizzocchi). An earlier member of the family was Leonardo. His epitaph (1742) read: > To Leonardo Bracci Cambini, citizen of Florence and Pisa, who after having > travelled in many countries by land and by sea, finally returned home, > subsequently showered with various offices in Pisa, he was finally put in > charge of the Naval Consulate.
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While not offering a general definition, he describes that in his book "whenever diabolos is used as the proper name of Satan", he signals it by using "small caps". The Oxford English Dictionary has a variety of definitions for the meaning of "devil", supported by a range of citations: "Devil" may refer to Satan, the supreme spirit of evil, or one of Satan's emissaries or demons that populate Hell, or to one of the spirits that possess a demonic person; "devil" may refer to one of the "malignant deities" feared and worshiped by "heathen people", a demon, a malignant being of superhuman powers; figuratively "devil" may be applied to a wicked person, or playfully to a rogue or rascal, or in empathy often accompanied by the word "poor" to a person—"poor devil".Craige, W. A.; Onions, C. T. A. "Devil". A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography.
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Giacomo Meyerbeer by Josef Kriehuber, 1847 Throughout his life Mendelssohn was wary of the more radical musical developments undertaken by some of his contemporaries. He was generally on friendly, if sometimes somewhat cool, terms with Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but in his letters expresses his frank disapproval of their works, for example writing of Liszt that his compositions were "inferior to his playing, and […] only calculated for virtuosos"; of Berlioz's overture Les francs-juges "[T]he orchestration is such a frightful muddle [...] that one ought to wash one's hands after handling one of his scores"; and of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable "I consider it ignoble", calling its villain Bertram "a poor devil". When his friend the composer Ferdinand Hiller suggested in conversation to Mendelssohn that he looked rather like Meyerbeer – they were actually distant cousins, both descendants of Rabbi Moses Isserles – Mendelssohn was so upset that he immediately went to get a haircut to differentiate himself. In particular, Mendelssohn seems to have regarded Paris and its music with the greatest of suspicion and an almost puritanical distaste.
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From the Four Winds, a collection of short stories, was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897. These and several subsequent works were published under the pen name of John Sinjohn, and it was not until The Island Pharisees (1904) that he began publishing under his own name, probably owing to the recent death of his father. His first full-length novel, Jocelyn, was published in an edition of 750 under the name of John Sinjohn—he later refused to have it republished. His first play, The Silver Box (1906),—in which the theft of a prostitute's purse by a rich 'young man of good family' is placed beside the theft of a silver cigarette case from the rich man's father's house by 'a poor devil', with very different repercussions,Description of the plot from John Galsworthy, by George Orwell, Monde 23 March 1929 though justice was clearly done in each case—became a success, and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first book of a Forsyte trilogy.
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