Word: wickednesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wily, wicked Volpone (the Fox) is a Venetian magnifico who pretends to be dying and to be deliberating on who shall be his heir. A crowd of voracious hopefuls rise to the bait, heap gifts upon him, satiate his own love of gold. With the help of his parasite, Mosca...
In the Rockies, Fine had stopped at a desolate schoolhouse where he found a "female ancient mariner with watery eyes" teaching 34 pupils. The old woman invited him to listen to a civics class. Wrote Fine: "She began a discussion of good & bad laws, complaining that this country is ruled...
"I sort of edged up aside him and, says I, 'Mister, will you have a few draps?' He blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell...
At a United Church presbytery meeting in Toronto last week, a committee made a stern report: the city once known far & wide as "Toronto the Good" has become pretty wicked. Said the committee: "Toronto is obsessed with the slippery condition of its streets when it should be concerned with the...
It's a fancy place that oldtimers dream about. . . . Some said the "valley was full of gold and some said it was hot as hell owing to the warm springs. . . . It had a wicked name too, for at least a dozen folks went in and never came out. . . . Indians...