Word: fiendishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week with gravity that they had reason to believe that Lerroux's Nephew Aurelio, his onetime Minister of the Interior Rafael Salazar Alonso and half a dozen other Radicals had taken Straus's money. Old Lerroux, his white mustaches trembling with rage, replied that it was a fiendish Monarchist plot to split Spain's Centre coalition. Mexican Straus could not be found last week anywhere but, amid Monarchist chortles, Premier Chapaprieta's Cabinet seemed doomed...
...League of Nations! We fight and die while the League talks. ... If only we could fight men in the manner of men! But we are facing an invader who uses the most fiendish methods known to warfare all because he is angered that we protect our homes and land. Our lands are being laid barren by gas; our mules, sheep, and cattle are dying in the fields...
...Children's How. What happens when a fiendish little girl really applies herself to disrupting a boarding school...
...that all Germans were barbarians was an easy step. Though U. S. General Sherman had coined the phrase, the U. S. never grasped the fact that war is hell, thought (under advice) the Germans must be hellions. "Innumerable sensible Americans were . . . genuinely, seriously convinced that Germans were a peculiarly fiendish and brutal race, quite beyond the pale oi ordinary humankind...
Oldsters were pleased to learn, however, that young passion is not wholly dead. The author of "Kisses," who submitted 27 other poems, cried out: As the powerful wind pushes the cliffs And polishes down the canyons, Tears from sage and greasewood Their sharp and bitter odor, Flings sand in fiendish figures-I-thrill! I am mad! I am here! Take me-wild-drunk with delight...