Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe those fortune tellers who predict a return to prosperity provided the Corridor be given back to Prussia! That is a tale for children. A new partition of Poland would be an evil deed...
...Profiting by so much economic distress and so much moral disorder, the enemies of all social order, be they called Communists or any other name, boldly set about breaking through every restraint. This is the most dreadful evil of our times...
...venue having been granted the defendant because of high feeling about the case in Pittsburgh. Also convicted was onetime City Supplies Director Bertram L. Succop. Wartime infantry colonel, whom Mayor Kline dismissed when the investigation began but whose testimony at the trial exonerated the Mayor from "conspiracy" and "evil intent...
...procedure of befuddling a speak-easy visitor and inducing him to sign checks, often raised later, is known in the underworld as "giving him the circus." Circus victims, part of whose money goes to the taxicab driver who steers them to the evil retreat, are usually so ashamed of themselves afterward that they fail to report to the police. This racket, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker...
...Edinburgh trial, in 1857, of one Madeleine Smith (which was also the inspiration for Dishonored Lady, played by Katharine Cornell on the Manhattan stage) was the source of Letty Lynton. Whatever evil effect the picture may have on the behavior of its patrons will be increased by the fact that it'is a well-constructed, well-written melodrama which avoids the stencils of its type. Nils Asther is a blonde athlete from Stockholm Yet he wears fuzzy sideburns and speaks in such a way as to be the epitome of Latin menace. There is another immoral character...