Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intelligent man, sufficiently older than himself to demand respect, and near enough his own age to have mutual understanding, the chances are that he may be straightened out. The college man finds the boy occupation, talks to him sensibly, and under this treatment all but the really vicious boys can be straightened...
...much less poetic was Mr. Noyes's appeal for disarmament and the "realm of peace and love and justice." In stirring phrases he denounced the vicious circle of logic by which the nations defend gigantic navies and armies. "We must strengthen our armaments because others are strengthening theirs" is the argument. European parliaments know that it must stop, and yet they cannot escape from the "vicious treadmill that they have set going" which is "grinding the bones of men." Armament and the taxation it requires weaken Europe like "a great financial vampire sucking the blood of nations...
...cases in court. The passing of the judge, the disappearance of the great court-room advocates, the popular distrust of courts, and the disposition of rich business men and corporations to avoid litigation and "beat the law" so far as they safely can, and even farther have constituted a vicious circle of evil tendencies in both theory and practice, the effects of which on public opinion in the United States have been plain, widespread and deeply to be deplored...
Dean Rev. Walter Taylor Sumner, D.D., chairman of the Chicago Vice Commission, will speak on "Efficient Citizenship" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Sumner, who is one of the foremost fighters in the battle for the reform of Chicago's vicious West Side district, has been waging a vigorous fight against white slavery in Chicago for several years. He is a members of the city Board of Education, first vice-president of the Juveline Protection League, a members of the Committee on the Unemployed, and vice-president of the Juvenile Court Committee...
...Citizenship" in the Living Room of the Union on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Sumner has been waging a vigorous fight against white slavery in Chicago for several years and is, in fact, one of the foremost figures in the battle for the reform of Chicago's vicious West Side district...