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Word: cadaverously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicagoans nostalgically recalled the lush days of gangsterism when Chicago was good for a cadaver a night. Again they wondered when the sawed-offs would bark, wondered whose blood would run and where.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Back to the Roaring '20s | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure. Best example: a Government crime-laboratory expert, carving his broiled fowl at the dinner table with the deadly scalpel strokes of a surgeon dissecting a cadaver, pauses to comment: "A very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Shanghai, as Hollywood viewed it, was a bright and glamorous city of glittering vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Japanese Torture | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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