Word: fiendishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after another the girls put the uncomplaining Pontiac through tests more fiendish than any proving grounds ever devised. The one who always shifted without touching the clutch quite stole the show. On the way back to Cambridge after the ordeal, Mr. Yordan spouted elements of safe driving and made a pronounced full stop at every "stop" street, which touched the Vagabond's conscience. He resolved to reform. The Bureau for Street Traffic Research and the Newton girls had shown him the light...
...plan to throw in an hour of shorts between regular programs, which starts tentatively at the University Theatre today, marks the realization of a fiendish scheme to please everyone. By going in just as the "University Hour" begins, the serious student who goes to be educated can enjoy an hour of transluxuriant entertainment and depart in peace. If he has paid more than a quarter for his seat, he can even get a refund...
Back in England after a trip around the world, with a stopover in the U. S., Christopher poses as one of the Cumberland conspirators to worm his way into their headquarters in a remote Welsh castle. There unexpectedly he meets the Duke of Cumberland, a fiendish Frenchwoman who turns out to be his grandmother, and his father, who finally divulges the facts about Christopher's parentage, which "is both better and worse than the reader thought. In chains after making mincemeat of two burly guards, dreamy six-foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means...
...learn, only a few phrases of English. As a yodeler he is in better voice than ever. Inevitable develop ments include a fight with a crocodile, underwater swimming, treetop acrobatics. Eventually Tarzan is trapped by villainous Captain Fry. He escapes in time to rescue the party from the fiendish Ganeloni tribe, achieves sadistic revenge on Captain Fry in a swampy cave full of giant lizards...
...getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture...