Word: heinous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This tendency, the CRIMSON believes, is to be commended, together with the change in student and official athletic attitude which permits a student to make his own way, free from any stigma of disloyalty to his obligations or that most heinous of Early Twentieth Century charges, lack of College Spirit...
...Cleopatra from an equal height and a sickening thud is the result. Erskine maintains the integrity and complexity of his character, and the reader is impressed even if he is disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying her most minute sins into heinous debauchery Anyone having entertained admiration for Shakespeare's Cleopatra whose person "beggar'd all description" will put aside "Cleopatra's Private Diary," the appetite cloyed, the effect being similar to that obtained by eating cheap chocolates...
Perhaps Mr. de Mille has done all this and it is very likely that he has produced an interesting and in all probability and instructive entertainment. Nevertheless he has committed a heinous breach of taste, for he has more than hinted that his inspiration while making the picture was of as divine an origin as was Moses' when he received the Ten Commandments. Evidently the completed film was the work of Cecil B. de Mille in co-operation with Michel the Archangel. Whatever success the picture has, piously murmurs the gentlman, is due not so much to himself...
...report of the President's speech had been prepared, became apparent to alert Denverites who compared the Post's account of the President's speech (TIME, May 2) with accounts printed the same afternoon by the Post's rival, the Scripps-Howard News, which is served by the apparently heinous United Press. The News printed two accounts, one from a United Press man and one by the Associated Press, which serves the gambling Post but whose report on the Presidents speech Publisher Bonfils had seen fit to hash, jazz, garble and publish without naming its source...
...auto, that emblem of our mechanical age, comes in now and again for its due share of blame for almost any heinous insult to morals that passing fancy chooses to decry. And now its potentialities for destroying the fruitful years of the flower of American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne...