Word: flendish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to be quoted as doing nothing but smile," declared Thomas S. McCaleb, instructor in Geographical Exploration, when questioned about Guglielmo Marconi's flendish invention. Swathed in rumor, this 'micro-wave' machine is supposed to stall the ignition system of airplanes...
Although professing to be a scientific organization members of this department will proudly profess that they own a magic mirror. Producing this flendish article the Fogg conjurer will let you examine it until you are satisfied that it contains no hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected...
...library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...
Scouts were sent out the Liberal Club meeting to discover whether that organization was also in on the flendish schemes but these liaison officers were hastily expelled from the Lowell House Common Room where the meeting was being held. A special meeting of the dance committee was called by the Chairman Robert S. Hurlbut '34 to consider an immediate counter attack but the R.O.T.C. unit was destined to battle against thin air, when the N.S.L. failed to show any inclination of supporting the rumors with action...