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...fiend : cft. Vag looked at the frayed spot in the rug. So grieved was the coming thing. Who was he, Vag, to act his face against progress? Cronin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

Lampoon--Bow, Street; 1, Bis; 2, Wit; 3, Joe Kerr; 4, Queue; 5, Dunce; 6, Fiend; 7, Clink Kerr; Stroke, Quigley; Cox, C. Oliver Iselin '49. Average height: 4 ft. 9 in. (with cox, 4 ft. 9 in). Average weight: 212 (with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNUSUAL SPORTING Ipectacle !!!!!!! 23-2, 23-2, 23-2, 23-2, 23-2, 23-2, 23-2, 23-2 | 5/18/1951 | See Source »

...racial controversy last week. He announced that he would fast for 14 days and would then notify Prime Minister Malan when & where he proposed to break certain of the government's racial laws. Said Manilal: "The Malan government's Apartheid [racial segregation] policy is creeping like a fiend into every walk of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Martyrdom Requested | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...Jimmy at all. Her backers, in fact, were complaining that Jimmy was not only failing to help her, but failing to help himself. Many another Democrat was sore because Jimmy was giving talks on public utilities and happiness instead of trying to paint Governor Warren as a drooling Republican fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Mamma Knows Best | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...schizophrenia, or at feast amnesia, the plot switches to Gaslight: Claudette, it turns out, is the victim of an elaborate frame-up. After using a lot of fancy psychiatric jargon in analyzing the heroine's condition, the script finally reveals the villain as melodrama's oldfashioned "mad fiend." Still unsolved: Who framed Actress Colbert into the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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