Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the time I was beginning to walk and was fortunate that I couldn't understand it, preachers quoted the Bible and urged young men to kiss a pretty girl, join the army, and kill the wicked Germans. Today we wonder who really started the War, and know very...
They saw two U. S. youngsters beat the whizzing foreign skiers at their own game. Dartmouth's great Dick Durrance sped down the two-and-a-half-mile Mt. Hood downhill course, ''Hara-kiri Hill," in 3:55.3; raced twice around the wicked slalom turns in the...
"Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must be cut off."
The various characters make up a strange, stagnant society, in which the main character, Jack Stephens, finds himself. The bigotry of this society is typified by Jack's Aunt Matilda, who rules him with a hickory whip. As a child, Jack is gifted with an imagination and questioning power which...
Called Babes in the Wood, the show might well be mistaken for one of those innocuous fairy tale "pantomimes" so dear to British children of all ages. Produced by the left wing Unity Theatre Club, Inc., Babes in the Wood keeps out of the Lord Chamberlain's censorship clutches...