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Word: flendish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finnish bath's a flendish plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/18/1925 | See Source »

...included in the category of men who are sponsors of a twentieth century civilization? Or will my colleague interpose that we have such a phrase for mere aesthetic embellishment? And again, if by Americans he means the real indigenous Americans, the Indians, who wielded the tomahawk with a flendish delight, prancing about their scalpless victims about to be roasted at the stake, then we concur in chorus that "the greater their anguish the greater their pleasure"; but that age has passed. If men progress mentally, culturally, and spiritually, then I am convinced we have left far behind the stage when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Civis Americanus Sum." | 1/16/1920 | See Source »

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