Word: fiendishness
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Through years of constant practice, irascible old (70) John L. Lewis has developed a fiendish skill at lobbing verbal harpoons into the A. F. of L.'s fussy, proper old (77) President William Green. Lewis once denied that the A. F. of L. had any head at all; its neck, he said, "just haired over." Last week he let headless Bill Green have it again. The cause of his ire: Green's public promise that "Labor" would sign a no-strike pledge whenever the President asked...
...fiendish combination of match and medal play where each of the entrants plays one round against every opponent, gains or loses a point according to the number of strokes he takes against each...
...incoming pins-but the newcomer is often vaguely disappointed at his first view to find that it does not look particularly formidable. What the newcomer soon learns: 1) there is hardly a level lie on the course, and 2) the holes are defended by some of the most fiendish bunkers in existence...
Died. Gargantua the Great, twentyish, for twelve years Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's "frightfully fiendish" star gorilla; of double pneumonia, cancer and complications; in his $10,000 air-conditioned cage in Miami...
...fiendish field conditions in the first half especially troubled the Varsity, and at the quarter. Springfield held a 2 to 0 lead. But the team caught on, and by the half had drawn up to even the score...