Word: malignance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peterson scandal-he was supposed to have paid his political overlord some $2,000-soon evaporated. Not to malign a dead man, it seemed sufficient to say that Postmaster Peterson's bankruptcy was his own fault and not political. But there were other cases...
Archbishop Drossaerts, as he said these words, was speaking to people whose minds were filled with a thousand small and bitter pictures. He and they could remember the stories that are told across the border, of the malign and treacherous determination with which Mexican officials pursue Roman Catholics. In circulation are the stories...
...HOTEL-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press ($2.50). The stagnant monotony of English middle class vacation has crept into this reflection on the malign chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when...
...heroic poem entitled "The Malign Comedy" and surrounded by a frieze-like border that merits close scrutiny is given the place of honor in the number. The poet enjoys the eminently satisfying experience of visiting the nether regions and viewing those worthies who have intrigued his interest on the lecture platform. The reader will readily observe that the artist, too, enjoyed his work in depicting the nether regions. Despite the trace of bitterness always in evidence in an undergraduate's opinion of his intellectual antennae at the season of the finals, the epic is a worthy successor...
...asked, for she had caught sight of one small fist whose aspect caused her, inexplicably, to shudder. It was not dirtier than the others; it was not mis-hapen, and it was unmarked except for a few minutes bulging sores. Yet if gave her an indefinable and malign impression of deformity, of horror. She sent the boy attached to the hand-one Frank George, 11-to Dr. E. D. Newman, skin specialist. A short time afterward this medico asked to see the boy's brother, one Hale George, 13. The two boys did not return to school. There...