Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton is Not Wicked
"But in your games there is just one thing you cannot do even to win success. You cannot do one tricky or shabby thing. Translate tricky and shabby--dishonest, ungentlemanlike. (Princeton is not wicked: Yale is not base.)
Near Bamberg in Franconia is a smallish cave with a hollow in front of it. In that hollow, in ancient times, a wicked duke cornered three virgin princesses and, when they resisted him, cut off their heads. Every October since then, says Bamberger legend, the three determined virgins gallop out...
¶ At Watkins Glen, N.Y., Garage Owner Walter E. Hangsen of Westfield, N.J. took his 160 h.p. Jaguar XK-120 sports car around 22 laps of wicked curves to win the annual road race. Average speed: 76.1 m.p.h.
The result, as eye-filling as ever, was an example of what Sadler's Wells likes to do best: the full-length romantic ballet in classical style. The ballet chorus, dressed in autumn colors as peasants, in regal purples and crimsons as court maidens, in severe white as swans...