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Word: wickednesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mencken poured his scorn on U.S. life, its culture and its government. Presidents consorted with "rogues and ignoramuses"; the Senate was "perhaps the windiest and most tedious group of men in Christendom." He decided that "democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage," that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unregenerate Iconoclast | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Beetle-browed Vince Foster was not a thoughtful young man in spite of the perplexed look that always lay on his battered countenance. But he had a wicked punch, and the little touch of meanness that puts a razor edge on a fighter. In prize rings around Omaha, he stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of a Fighter | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

The Wizard of Oz (M-G-M), dusted off and reissued, proves that true wizardry, whether in books or on the screen, is ageless. In the magical land of Oz, nothing changes. As wide-eyed Dorothy, Judy Garland still wanders through an enchanted Technicolored landscape with the Tin Woodsman (Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Edward, My Son. Rich, creamy hokum about a wicked Englishman's dazzling career (TIME, Oct. 11).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...true peace ... is deepened, not disturbed, by the crosses, checks and disquietudes of the world, for they are welcomed as coming from the hands of the Loving Father. This true peace can never come from adjustment to the world, for if the world is wicked, adjustments to wickedness make us worse. It comes only from identification of one's own will with the Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Psychiatry & Faith | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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