Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sylvie was arranging some letters on a board - EVIL. 'Now Bruno,' she said, 'what does that spell...
...chief appeal to the public is an overworked but still excellent plot which first exposes the plan of one member of a connubial team for extinction of the other, and then proceeds to weave an intricate net of suspicion and terror surrounding the discovery by the victim of the evil plans afoot. This idea although interesting and teeming with suspense has already been used in "Suspicion," "Angel Street," and "Dark Waters," and becomes tedious in time...
...From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil old days before the war, he and his playfellows of Europe's smart set used to play roulette. Now the grimmer chances of history had closed France...
Standing before his portrait, Dorian said he believed he would sell his soul if only the portrait might take on the penalties of his coming age and experience of evil, and he himself remain untouched...
...Lion & the Scepter. Ibn Saud's paternal great-great-great-grandfather was a mighty Sheikh when George Washington was a planter's son in Virginia. But the Saud family, long powerful in a land where the family is the center of power, fell on evil days in Abdul Aziz' boyhood...