Word: archfiend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago, Mr. Nash evidently felt his conscience prick him. He decided to distribute his $600,000 worth of stock among his employes. He told them: "If I took this $600,000 and personally appropriated it, I would be the archfiend of the ages. If I snatched this money that you have helped to earn away from you, my conscience would condemn me for being the greatest robber that ever walked on God's footstool...
Three Ministers of the Tsar died violent deaths; and three men were hanged for their deeds. They and the girl, Fanny Kaplan, who came within an ace of killing Lenin in 1918, took their orders from the archfiend, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...common, unchanging battle ground at Springfield. The modern generation likes to be told of the glory of the old series: the tedious stage coach trip to Springfield, the meagre stands, the disorganized cheering, the "flying wedge", "guards back", the moustached heroes Trafford, Waters, Lake, Morrison, Heffelfinger (that very archfiend of Harvard's followers), and above all the unbelievable goryness of those grim struggles...