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Word: fiends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through windows. After that the number of his victims increased. Mattoon's ten policemen, who had been ignoring the archcriminal, now sallied forth at night, seeking they knew not what and not finding it. Chicago newsmen swept joyfully down upon Mattoon and wired leering accounts of The Gas Fiend, The Thin Man of Mattoon, The Mad Phantom and The Screwball Chemist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: At Night in Mattoon | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...fiend who gave her new mop a crew haircut...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...four charred female bodies. In No. 21's closets they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Rue Le Sueur | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Mayor of Baguio in the Philippines and now a prisoner of the Japs at Camp Holmes in the Baguio area. Duke's publicity office released to the newspapers the entire text of the letter (some 700 words), to run, presumably, in conjunction with the fiend-ridden experiences of Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and the thousands of other Americans captured at Bataan. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Wonderful Time | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...nominate the Conqueror of Conquerors, the fiend INFLATION, who lights his cigaret with a greenback, who sits upon the back of Victory, who spurns Justice and Security beneath his feet, and who is served by minor devils Want, Crime and Destruction. Peering over his shoulder show his lieutenant, John L. Lewis. Let Artzybasheff draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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