Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers of the Harvard Debating Club-during the coming season, as announced yesterday, will be as follows. Gerald Harrington '30, president; J K Hurd '30 vice president. Saul Silverman '30, secretary. James Jenmson '30, man ager of the Debating Council. Faculty advisor, Celian Ufford, Coach, Edward Rowe...
Beaming, the Vice President explained: "It was the decent thing to do. It was the nice thing to do. It gives us great pleasure to do what we think the courteous thing...
Boston offers a lucrative field for the business of vice. Competition is keen. Thriving "places of business" crowd one another in Boston's South End. Philadelphia and New York rings vie with local operatives for the Boston trade. But last week the Boston vice industry suffered a slump. Federal agents descended on South End "houses." The hostesses, forewarned, had fled. Only two women were taken in: Rose ("Rosie Big Lips") Restant and Pauline ("Queen Polly") Levine...
...fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when his right-hand man, Heikichi Ogawa, vice president of Seiyukai, was put to prison, after his bank account showed 2,000,000 illicit yen ($960,000) purported to be derived from promotion of private railways projects while he was Minister of Railways...
Snatched of its leader, muddied by its vice president, a depressed and disorganized Seiyukai made desperate efforts to mend itself for the impending national elections in January...