Word: wickednesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spats & Monocles. But, for the Countess, the deathbed atmosphere of Rumania was best typified by the "Old Excellencies." There were two of these strange creatures in the lobby of the Athene Palace, "a kind of token force of a large army of some 700 living Rumanian former cabinet ministers, and...
Neither Commissioner Pagan nor the Coalition leaders seemed to think that Governor Tugwell was a wicked man: they just thought he was a wrong one.
Calvé's Carmen, which she first flaunted at U.S. audiences nearly 50 years ago, is poorly preserved by her bosomy photographs or the cavernous sounds of her model-T recordings. One critic, the late Henry E. Krehbiel, better recorded her effect on the half-fascinated, half-scandalized audiences...
Stalking men of war they kept submerged, sharklike, getting off their wicked torpedoes by sound or at periscope depth. To strike at waddling merchantmen and tankers they often disdainfully surfaced, and opened fire with deck guns almost before the green water had run off their rounded backs.
Across the field, in a wicked, jagged line, the bombs struck. The mess truck, rumbling back to quarters, disappeared, and with it the drivers.