Word: fiendish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hands and feet. Lest he, no doubt, should, although a member of the despised race and one against thousands, put to rout these courageous Southern gentlemen. When they had bound him, the chains being hard and the steel bars strong, they tortured him; the mob, with the fiendish tortures which from time immemorial have been the pastime of savages. And when he was near to oblivion from pain, they applied the torch to the oil-soaked fagots and aroused his spirit to a terrible death in the fire. It is noted that a few urged that he be shot. They...
...life and passion of the "Flower of France" are quite wonderful and divine enough in historic fact, without adding sugary heroics in order to pamper a public taste as cheap as dirt. The crime of her trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers...
...time when all Europe is concerned chiefly with discovering and putting to use new methods of blowing to pieces and patching up the human body, a greater interest than ever before attaches to the medical profession. Every day the invention of some new fiendish device of slaughter brings with it the counter-discovery of a new remedy. Day by day the problems of the physician become more intricate; and the field of medical science is broadened by leaps and bounds...
Then came the fatal extra-period, with the CRIMSON playing in such a fashion as to revelate the Lampoon. To mention Phillips' ineffectual ground-covering dashes extending from the Stadium Bridge to the Cambridge Boat Club and always ending in a serious fall over the puck, the fiendish body-checking of Captain Batchelder, or the unapproachable rushes of Baker, suspected by the Lampoon to be "H.A.H." in disguise, were to insult the other members of the team. Suffice it to say that it was Baker, unhindered by the funny tired men, unaided, and unsupported who scored the winning and only...