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Word: wickeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ryall Springs, Ga., was ripe for salvation. Nothing had happened there for a long time; even the wicked women-chasers, cardplayers, boozers were bored, welcomed the prospect of a camp meeting. Everything went even better than Brother Lowe's cagey schedule had planned. People swarmed in from miles around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amen, Sinner | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

The first Doherty counterattack was a heavy barrage of telegrams. Whipped to fury by having his stock suspended he turned from the central issue of gas rates to assail the Kansas City Star, which he pictured as a wicked newspaper dictating to a puppet Governor, hurting the welfare of 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Storm over Kansas | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

The good & great Queen, although she went to Paris last week, did not sleep in the wicked, noisy ville lumineuse. She stopped at no hotel as other visiting royalties do. (Edward of Wales or Gustav of Sweden would have gone to the Hotel Meuricc. Indian potentates incline to the Ritz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Queen to Paris | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

That Birth Control report enraged the Patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews of Seattle. Dr. Matthews is lawyer as well as preacher. As soon as he was called to Seattle (1902) he began cleaning up that wicked stopover towards the Klondike goldfields. He disrupted the brothels in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council Scotched | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

WHEN THE WICKED MAN . . .-Ford Madox Ford-Liveright ($2.50). When a gossiper is going well he is not necessarily wicked, is often entertaining, sometimes even slightly edifying. Ford Madox Ford's books are gossipy, mostly entertaining but occasionally like the vaporings of the club bore. He is a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gossip | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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