Word: fiendishness
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Minor devil is James Arthur Currigan Luckypenny, middle-aged accountant in a big London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible...
...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...