Word: heinous
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...reads it. It goes without saying that the quality of a newspaper represents the quality of its readers. A great newspaper has often been known to scream in the headlines and grow purple in its editorials about an oil scandal, a Wall Street bomb, a colossal trust or other heinous calumnies. A fortnight ago, the New York Evening Bulletin, moron's caviar, indulged in journalistic bathos...
...practice of his art, critics differ. There is a certain difficulty in estimating the proficiency of an agreeable old fellow who persists in distracting your attention by a rapid fire of chatty comment and sportive gesture. His work is uneven?varying from snatches of irresistible and unfamiliar beauty to heinous sins against the purest of arts. Anyway, he is worth watching...
Thereupon Claude O. Pike of the Chicago Daily Tribune rushed down to Bolivia to get the facts. The most specific charge (and to Anglo-Saxons the most heinous) was that Saavedra suppressed the press. The second, like unto it, was that he cruelly banished and incarcerated opposition journalists and politicians...
...sportswoman; she was beautiful; moreover she had the brilliant intelligence of a Wittelsbach. From her arrival in Vienna she unwittingly offended Viennese society because she rode horseback, because she tried to simplify court etiquette, and lastly, because she had voiced an unerring predilection for Hungary and the Hungarians-a heinous offense in Austrian eyes. It was largely through the Empress that the Dual Monarchy came into being...
...this book from the perspicuous pen of M. Viviani, it is possible that the Old Man of Doom is not quite as bad as he is depicted. Be that as it may, there is no shadow of a single doubt that Wilhelm must shoulder a good part of the heinous responsibility of setting the match to the fagots; which act resulted in that mighty conflagration, of which the embers are still smouldering...