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Word: wickeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming a slightly choleric tone with a faint but perceptible reddening of the gills, John Bull has bellowed a loud protest at the Soviet Union for its jailing of four British subjects on charges of sabotage. Conservatives and reactionaries in the Oemmons gleefully welcomed the pretext to indulge in verbal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUNDING BRASS | 3/22/1933 | See Source »

"Curses on that city slicker! He ain't done right by our little Nell!" cries Hiram Stanley, the honest farmer. It's true he ain't and it looks bad for Nell. But virtue triumphs, and villainous Richard Murgatroyd, alias Handsome Harry, is foiled in his wicked designs on the...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/16/1933 | See Source »

Last week, Charles Edwin Mitchell (hair whiter but neck, biceps and calves as toughly muscular as ever) was brought to trial. He could not see his judges-they were that inchoate multitude, the U. S. people. Verdict (uttered in a vast mumble of expletives as evening headlines followed morning): that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Damnation of Mitchell | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Solemnly the priests waited upon Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: No Yo-Yo! | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Our esteemed daily contemporary, The Crimson departing from its usual purpose of stabilizing, solemnizing and advising the universe, burnt into unexpected capera worthy of its skittish rival. With great particularity and ponderosity it told of the alleged financial straits of The Lampoon, printed a supposed confession from its president that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 12/1/1932 | See Source »

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