Word: fiending
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Nicholas Holtz was a fiend in tycoon form, but he was also a potent and respectable citizen. The unseen tsar of a million destinies, he had in his grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...
...throes of blessed motherhood," called the kidnapping of "our beloved 'Eaglet' " the "greatest and most disastrous case of all times, excepting the Crucifixion of the devine Son of Man," and reached its climax in: "Yes, but the ashes of the darling baby, victim of a fiend urged by greed of gain, and seeking pleasure, are mute witnesses of the Crime, while within every American's breast there is a beating of the heart, tolling the death-knell of every gangster, while the Stars and Stripes fly from every staff and masthead...
...contract fiend or even if your tasters run only as far as Old Maid, you might be interested to know that there is a pack of Hindustani cards in the archives of Widener which was invented by a king's wife to make him stop pulling hairs out of his beard...
...which the story is told in sharp, abbreviated sequences gathering speed steadily toward their explosive climax, makes The Man Who Knew Too Much one of the neatest melodramas of the year. Furthermore it includes the first English-speaking cinema performance of Peter Lorre, who, as the chubby, anarchist fiend, enacts a part which admirers are likely to consider comparable to his famed portrayal of the sadist hero...
When the shirt-sleeved man in the green eyeshade scribbles LONG FLAYS NEW DEAL, or MILLIONS STARVE IN UKRAINE, or FIEND GUTS TOT, he is simply doing a job according to the dictates of space and the special characteristics of his newspaper. In all likelihood he neither knows nor cares that he is "writing in a new tense, unknown before headlines were invented." Last week one Dr. Manuel Rosenblum, language teacher at Buffalo Collegiate Centre, gravely announced that newspapers have created the "sigmatic present" tense. Sigmatic means the addition of the letter "s" to any word...