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Word: flendish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running for Governor. Beal engineers all sorts of deals to get Foster elected, but ruins his reputation as well. And of course Foster has signed away his soul (in writing, very legal), and only saves himself at the last moment by brandishing a Bible in front of Beal's flendish face...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...very uniquely designed phonograph connected to each other several times over by wires which dive and coil menacingly and generally rule most of that part of the room which lies below the waist. These respective parts, each after its own fashion, are perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle of it all and force him to submit to the latest product of his off-hour madness in the way of an identification quiz...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz jr., | Title: Jazz | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

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