Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ninety-five percent of Billings and Stover's business is professional prescription work. Mr. Mahoney considers his soda, cigarettes, and candy supply only a necessary evil. There aren't any swivel-stools in front of the soda fountain. But business along that line is good enough to warrent the presence of two great barrels of Coca-Cola syrup among the "reserves supplies" down cellar...
...York Herald Tribune. Now he works for the afternoon tabloid PM. During World War I, Raemaekers made two cartoons a day, saw his work blown up in posters as big as 15 by 20 yards, was so powerful that he could portray his employer, Mr. Hearst, as an evil-looking dispenser of "seedition" (sowing seeds marked "cowardice" and "treason"). An obvious likeness of Hearst, although it did not bear his name, the cartoon appeared in Hearstpapers. Last week Louis Raemaekers hoped to shape U. S. opinion in World War II as he had in World...
...Peasant organizations and the Polish Socialist Party were doing undercover work and making pan-Slavic overtures to Russia, regarded as a lesser evil than Germany...
...predicated upon the willingness of men to limit their freedom in the interest of the well-being of the entire community." On the subject of Democracy he announced last month that the two-party system was a "fetish," not necessary. Said Manuel Quezon: "Political parties are good only for evil things...
...scene: a chateau in Normandy, cradled between the noises of the sea and a huge house of doves. The villainess: Aunt Barbe, an aging beauty with a body like a whip, fox-red hair, a spoiled child's genius for misusing others, and a voracity for doing evil which grows in ratio to her sense of guilt. She works out on her niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants, on an intense young priest who manages to frighten her. She becomes fascinated by an Oriental theory that one may be cleansed of venereal disease through...