Word: wickednesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But, good or bad, polygamy was doomed. U.S. agents came in to hunt down "cohabs." Wrote one Mormon: "The hounds of hell were laying in wate for me. How long will the Lord allow these wicked reches to gain power over us?"
The kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a jar country, "who called his own servants. . . . And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one. . . . After a long time the lord of those servants cometh. . . . And so he that had received five talents...
Varied echoes of the Lemin line bounced back from all over the world. In France the Communist weekly, France Nouvelle, shrieked dutifully: "French independence seriously threatened by the dollar kings!" In the U.S., meanwhile, Henry Wallace and his political siblings continued to tell Americans about how wicked the British and...
"Tall, balding Gus Hennig, chief guard for the past 37 years, smiles and says: 'It's wicked out there today.' As you walk on to the floor a messenger in full sprint about knocks you down. The great paneled room resembles a large railroad station at 5...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock...