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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activity in the past few stories, that of "taking care" of friends at state expense, has provided a fitting climax to a long and thoroughly unenviable career. But even had he given a sugary pill at the end of his doctoring of the state, he could not overcome the evil taste left by large doses of sickening medicines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOODBYE, MR. CURLEY | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

...were the faces of several proud Manhattan bankers last week when they were exposed in Federal Court not for evil but for folly. In Judge William Bondy's courtroom, Michael ("Mike") Pecoraro, 39, a confessed swindler with at least 19 aliases, received an 18-month penitentiary sentence for having obtained $15,563 in 19 different loans from the National City Bank and Manufacturers Trust Company on 19 pieces of real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sane Borrower | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

FLOWERS OF EVIL-Charles Baudelaire -Translators: Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Books | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Long have prophets of evil gloomed over the troubles that will come when the U. S. first tries to reduce Relief expenditures. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins returned to his office in Washington and ran head first into a docket of such troubles. For while he was conferring with his regional administrators in New Orleans, his Assistant Aubrey Williams had announced the first Relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Still No Starving | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned down for at least half the picture to a dismal half-whisper that resembles the sound of a fly trying to crash through a screen door. It is not a great sin for such as Laughton and Korda to fail; the evil lies in refusing to admit the failure and claiming for it new heights of cinematic excellence. It must be said in justice to "Rembrandt" that costuming and photography are excellent, as they always are in Korda films, but someone should tell those who write movie blurbs that a great actor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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