Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenement house and patronizing the bar of the Green Man? Why was Ordino's exclusive club so popular? What was Ordino's connection with Lady Judith and Professor Sir Gregory Fawsitt? Who was the man in the long, soiled mackintosh, the man with the deep-set evil eyes and the complexion of a vampire? To some of these questions the reader can soon supply the answer. Ordino's club was a blind for selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent pleasure trips but drug-buying expeditions...
...Everyone knows what damage is done to the soul by bad motion pictures. They are occasions of sin; they seduce young people along the ways of evil by glorifying the passions; they show life under a false light; they cloud ideals; they destroy pure love, respect for marriage and affection for the family...
...weeklies and semi-weeklies of modest, local circulation. The Association grew to include some 3,500 members, set up a Washington lobby to see that their cherished patent medicine advertising was not jeopardized, awarded annual prizes for excellence in typography, editorials, job printing. With Depression, N.E. A. fell on evil days. Some 1,000 members defaulted their dues and pessimists saw the end in sight. Last week a new lease on N. E. A.'s life was assured when N. E. A.'s Acting Managing Director William W. Loomis, publisher of the La Grange (Ill.) Citizen, announced...
...long a time have we lived under the evil trinity of increased deficit, increased debt and increased taxes...
...northern Georgia. Her most famed work, A Circuit Rider's Wife, based upon her early life with her husband, Rev. Lundy Howard Harris, was published serially in the Saturday Evening Post in 1910. An optimistic believer in oldtime simple virtues, Mrs. Harris in 1930 became "Professor of Evil" at Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.), whose President Hamilton Holt had published much of her early work when he edited the Independent. Author Harris died last year (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935), left the bulk of her estate to three nephews: Captain Frederick Mixon Harris, U. S. A.; William Albinius ("Al") Harris...