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Word: foulest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tramp Abroad he calls this nude "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses. ... It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Yesterday morning Harvard students awoke to find a warning against war in their mail boxes, in the form of a circular letter sent around by the National Students League. The letter was a protest against the War Department's National Defense Week--"a campaign of the foulest lingism well-larded with the usual pacifistic phrases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS LEAGUE PROTESTS AGAINST WAR PREPAREDNESS | 2/16/1934 | See Source »

...reported by the News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully thwarting the Governor's chances of renomination. Mr. Walker's sentences bristled with epithets reminiscent of Denver's newspaper wars: "vulture," "rattlesnake," "vilest man who . . .", "public enemy," "slimy serpent," "contemptible dog of Champa Street," "foulest, dirtiest, vilest piece of newspaper work. . . ." Publisher Bonfils took no action against Chairman Walker. Nor did he-as he would have done a few years ago-loose a withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages of his Post. Instead he marched into court, demanded $200,000 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Can't Take It? | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

Briand & Stresemann Grafters? Foulest charge hurled at M. Briand during his illness by a bitter opposition press was that he and his late, great German friend, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann were a pair of "colossal grafters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand, Parliament & Fist fights | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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