Word: fiendishness
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...hate to do this to an old and trusted pal like Jimmy Cagney, but there's no getting around the fact that the initial cinematic attempt of the Cagney clan did little more than provide another likely victim for the fiendish English A section...
...They thought that war could be stopped. Their propaganda appealed to a war-sick nation. That propaganda was still going strong in 1940. "World Peace-ways Inc." spread its poster ads through the U.S. press: pictures of a maimed veteran captioned "Hello, Sucker," of a chemist bending over a fiendish brew...
...hibernation for the last two years has to do with an escaped criminal, with 12 murders to his credit, and two nice old ladies in Brooklyn, who also lay claim to 12 victims. There's plenty of room for complications here and authors Lindsay and Crouse take almost fiendish advantage of the situation...
...Iago, José Ferrer was no longer dwarfed by Robeson, but a proper foil. Too mild a villain last year from not wanting to be too melodramatic a one, Ferrer now is supple, mettlesome, lightly Mephistophelean-a virtuoso who lays bare the workings of Iago's fiendish mind, though not the mainsprings of his enigmatic nature...
There was the small man with the big remains that Bragg's were colorful. Their muscles, the close combat instructor and fiendish ("scrub barracks tonight") platoon sergeant. He had the "cadre complex" and had it bad, and was continually nasty in a high-pitched way. Then came the first cool day, when he winsomely confided that he was an ex-English teacher, that his greatest ambition was to come to Harvard after the war as a graduate student, "and just read for a year...