Word: wickeder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tammany Hall is by no means the totally wicked organization which out-of-towners and professional New York reformers believe it to be. Even so keen a muckraker as Lincoln Steffens lends support to the theory that only through such widespread political societies as Tammany does the greatest advantage come...
Those cheerful frauds who enrich themselves by the confection of such small primers of American citizenship as are on tap at the local immigrant school have divine certainty on two points. First, of course, is the great democratic hypothesis of equality which Mr. Lincoln phrased so enchantingly at Gettysburg. But...
Some of the tales that will strike a Western eye: the Bunyanesque vicissitudes of the stout-hearted Ling Ch'ung; the Decameronish deception of Wu the Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers...
Wallace Beery and George Raft put a little more life into their parts than was actually there and were ably cast as the leaders of the Bowery in its glamorous era. Naturally it was necessary to show what happened to a girl from Albany in the wicked city. Fay Wray...
Paul Codos, a big, swarthy Frenchman who has had a 15-year career of spectacular flying, sniffed the wind at Floyd Bennett Field one dawn last week. He glanced toward the head of the runway where mechanics were fuelling a huge Bleriot monoplane named for the late, famed Joseph LeBrix...