Word: wickedest
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Though he still had his stout Republican purpose he saw that Rome was not yet ripe for it. To outsiders it looked as if Messalina's betrayal had turned him to the way of all Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond...
...Baptist Church, he was welcomed by the late great John Roach Straton, who called him "one of the world's prophets." But in 1922 he was temporarily reinstated by Bishop Rhinelander, appointed lay reader in St. Paul's Church, Evanston, Wyo. Calling his new parish "the wickedest city in the U. S.," he was sued for libel, deposed. He entered the Methodist Church but soon left town. Before he went he filed suits totaling...
...Scalawag. David Higgins is known over the length and breadth of the land for His Last Dollar, a play written, acted, produced by him for more than a decade. In this new piece, he again enacts a lovable, old scamp bent on doing good in the wickedest ways. He would marry his pretty granddaughter to the grandson of his partner (in the garage business). The grandson helps himself into trouble by helping out a bootlegging World War veteran. But the aged rascal fixes everything. The play consists for the most part of "canned" gag situations of the reliable "old soak...
...York may be the biggest, Chicago the wickedest, Boston the dullest--but Detroit is the richest city in the United States. By a careful and crafty compilation of figures the Detroit Free Press shows that the individual income tax is largest per capita in the home of Henry Ford. It offers no numbers to illustrate what Detroiters do with their money after they have earned it, but one may presume that if the home town does not offer sufficient entertainment, they are at liberty to depart for points less wealthy and more amusing. Fortunately one does not have to remain...
...fact about the only thing omitted is a close-up of the interior of, say, Mr. Ince's mind. Of course the only blown-in-the-bottle villain (Landru, who has a habit of murdering his wives for their insurance) comes from outside of the pictures; the " wickedest woman in the movies " is proven to be engagingly aseptic; and even the director just talks elegant. But it's worth seeing, if only to view Chaplin in ordinary garb...