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Future policy dictates first, that readers will be given the opportunity to test their mettle in such devious ways as minute mysteries, jiffy quizzes, thrilling contests with cash awards and other such fiendish devices as the nimble minds of your correspondents can concoct. Secondly, we plan a program of cultural advancement...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

Victory or no, the fiendish Freshman wanted to add insult to injury. So, strictly from nonconformity, he donned a pair of shorts. His barelegged strides may have brought ohs and ahs from the Radcliffe girls but the only noticeable Yard Cop comment was "ahem!" plus a quick nab for "indecent exposure." So it was defeat again, but the little man still has a few more tricks up, his sleeve, just you wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scooters Here, Shorts There, He's Back Again, By Golly | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

Into minds dulled by years of propaganda and on to nerves chewed raw by this winter's bombings, Mussolini rubbed wholly fabricated atrocity stores: U.S. airmen, "bloodthirsty flying gangsters," have been bombing only churches, hospitals and nurseries; fiendish pilots have been dropping lipsticks, ladies' purses, flashlights, pens, pencils, cough drops and candy which explode in innocent and eager Italian hands. There have been broadcasts, press stories and faked newspictures of those supposedly maimed or killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hand That Held the Dagger | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

Have you met Oscar is the oscilloscope gremlin. He is a fiendish little fellow with a head like a vacuum tube and a greenish leer on his face. Indeed, be is one of the most hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electronics School | 6/18/1943 | See Source »

Deemed a worthy successor to the far-famed "Lowell Mole Patrol" and the much-touted "Take the Wrinkles Out of Pruneface's Face Association," the "Deathless Deer" club has been initiated by the B-School in recognition of the Boston Herald's new comic strip, product of the fiendish imagination of two girls, Alicia Patterson nd Neisa McMein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "We Know All the Antlers," Says "Deathless Deer" Club | 3/25/1943 | See Source »

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