Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look than the ice for which it is named. That Reyk means smoke and Reykjavik is "the smoking harbor." That Mount Hekla was considered by medieval Icelandic monks the entrance into Hell. That the poetic Icelanders have named their rocks and rills Waterfall of the Gods and Lava of Evil Deeds and Trembling River...
...Captain populates his island with all kinds of high-toned people, whom he transports to his hideaway at "Latitude Zero" (i.e., somewhere on the Equator) in a submarine. To rescue them he has brushes with huge man-eating crabs and trees, griffons and an evil fellow called Malic, who runs a rocket ship...
...class TIME, LIFE, and the MARCH OF TIME together as today's most evil influence on straight thinking...
Tooks went into the jungle, armed with colored post cards and bead necklaces. His Indian guides deserted him. He waded knee-deep through streams thick with evil-headed snakes. Malaria got him, pulled him down to 97 lb. He had to quit, go home...
...Middle Ages had the bubonic plague. We of the 20th Century are confronted by something even more incredibly virulent, the Teutonic plague of Adolf Hitler & henchmen. All civilized people everywhere should put their respective shoulders to the task of eliminating this evil before it is too late...