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Word: diabolicalness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Poisoning," his doctor at home briskly diagnoses. Despite some lingering fears that he was the victim of an electronic trick by a BBC man called Angel (who may or may not have worn a beard), or had become the subject of diabolic possession, Pinfold settles back happily to a quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-inflicted Satire | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Brats or Geniuses? Many have asked their whys of the Leopold-Loeb crime, and given answers ranging from "spoiled brats" to diabolic possession. Levin, who was an undergraduate contemporary of Leopold and Loeb at the University of Chicago in 1924, has offered a new version after 32 years' thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder & the Supermen | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

France, lately in bondage to nine-year-old Poetess Minou Drouet, is currently applauding Belgium's Anne Bodart for a charming book of fables, most of which she wrote when she was 14. She had to wait until she reached a mellow 17 before her work was published in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Women at Work | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

He explains his new theory on Algeria: "Big Wall Street syndicates found incredibly rich oil deposits in the Sahara, but instead of exploiting the discovery they capped the wells and turned the Algerians against us." He discourses on France's alliances: "All this is a great diabolic scheme to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Ordinary Frenchman | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Madame calmly notes one culprit's end: "She was burned at the stake yesterday, not Wednesday, as I had told you . . ." The woman who had been burned as a witch, La Voisin by name, was no innocent victim but a notorious poisoner and promoter of Black Masses. She symbolized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen of Letters | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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