Word: fiending
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...four charred female bodies. In No. 21's closets they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...
...Mayor of Baguio in the Philippines and now a prisoner of the Japs at Camp Holmes in the Baguio area. Duke's publicity office released to the newspapers the entire text of the letter (some 700 words), to run, presumably, in conjunction with the fiend-ridden experiences of Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and the thousands of other Americans captured at Bataan. Excerpts...
...nominate the Conqueror of Conquerors, the fiend INFLATION, who lights his cigaret with a greenback, who sits upon the back of Victory, who spurns Justice and Security beneath his feet, and who is served by minor devils Want, Crime and Destruction. Peering over his shoulder show his lieutenant, John L. Lewis. Let Artzybasheff draw...
...paper he has granted Nanking breathtaking political and economic concessions, such as the nominal surrender of foreign extraterritorial rights, including Japan's. He has tried to curb inflation in the occupied zone. He has altered his propaganda against Chiang Kaishek: no longer is the Generalissimo painted as a fiend destroying China, but as the tool of Anglo-American plotters. Most alarming, he has pushed the organization of Wang's puppet army, now several hundred thousand strong...
...outfit. In the ol' South they are saying in their best johnny-cake, corn whiskey accents, "Hahvuhd can have Peabody. We'll take Ramsey any day." The bad thing about it that "they" might be right, as good as Peabody was, for Ramsey blocks and tackles like fiend and was picked on every All-Southern team in the books last year...