Word: hellish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London last week Douglas Hastings admitted that in his two weeks' inspection he might have missed some aspects of a New Yorker's life. Said he: "New York is a hellish place to live, but it's the greatest sideshow on earth...
...with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
...Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
Modern specialists in plant diseases would recognize these ominous signs as symptoms of Phytophthora infestans, a species of fungus with rapid germinating properties and extremely virulent effects. To the half-savage, wholly uneducated peasantry, it was known simply as "the Blight," and regarded as a hellish, heaven-sent scourge. Holy-water and incantation were the only remedies invoked against it. Its onset marked the beginning of perhaps the most bitter famine in post-medieval European history...
Well, it was just about dusk when Mrs. Bridges started to take in the wash. It was on one of those hellish, back-breaking pulley lines. She had removed the first clothespin, when she lost her balance and hurtled out the window. She fell two stories to the concrete below into a space about as big as a closet. She struck the drainpipe to my aunt's flat and this broke her fall...