Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Government bestows friendly gifts upon the States, no less than the process by which it deprives them of powers they once exercised. The growth of the system of Federal subsidies to the States in the matter of good roads, agricultural stations, and vocational education he regards as vicious. However pleasant it may be for the States to receive something for nothing, "the whole tendency of the system is to destroy the principle of local self-government...
...special text was Oil, his chief target the Tariff. At Topeka he fell upon President Coolidge and snarled: "Without hesitation I declare that the stratum of the Republican party which has for the past eight years controlled the government is the most corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed on to Albuquerque. Here...
...them, but both of these fall short of being satisfactory. A New Englander suggests "Yankee", but Southerners consider this an insult. The vogue of "Uncle Shylock" abroad has been almost as short-lived as that of "Saviors of Democracy". The whole search for a satisfactory term ends in a vicious circle, with no solution...
...Smith. The second Col. Theodore Roosevelt lately toured the Midwest, minus his dinnercoat, frothing with expletives, trying to discredit Candidate Smith and Tammany Hall as vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks...
Last week Dictator Stalin, speaking through Pravda, strove to warn both peasants and industrials that they imperatively must increase sowing and production if economic Russia is not to perish in a dwindling vicious circle. By way of striking a note of cheer, Pravda observed that the peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet...