Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these Armours lived three or four more years, President Roosevelt would have flayed them personally. As it was he pilloried their company as one of the vicious "trusts." It was that, for Philip D. Armour I, privately honest and eleemosynary, was in commerce ruthless. Like John D. Rockefeller Sr. in oil, he forced railroads to rebate him part of his payments for meat and grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part...
...average Australian male earns $22 a week (as against $30 in the U. S.); and Australians spent over $500 each to put 329,883 men into the World War. Some 300,000 of these suffered casualties, over 50,000 being killed. But even with this vicious drain on her man power and exchequer, Australia has emerged from the War strong and quickening. year and a half ago she weathered a great shipping strike, and through all these growing pains and tribulations has resolutely pushed forward the great project of Canberra...
...expertly photographed pictures of Mike Donlin, Irish Meusel, Bob Meusel, Tony Lazzeri in real baseball action and almost smells the fresh rolled diamond, the frowsy gloves, the players' sweaters, the hero is filmed winning the final world series game for his team by sliding for home with a vicious lunge that sweeps him along the ground halfway from third...
...dead. Servants, at my home, No. 998 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, told newspapermen I was accustomed to sleep late." The Rev. Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson, first Socialist ever to become a Canon of Westminster Abbey: "In Barnet, suburb of London, I said: 'The silk [top] hat is a vicious, vile, ugly symbol of the ungodly Victorian. It is hard, unyielding, uncomfortable and pretentious, with an outside gloss and an inside smell. It is responsible for much of the baldness of the late generation which it typifies.'" . Rudyard Kipling, poet-story-teller: "My wife and I, aged 61, arrived last...
Hough, fast play, with many long shots and wild scrambles in front of the cages featured the overtime periods. Late in the second ten minutes Lane swept across the ice and cracked the puck with a vicious backhander that was deflected and rolled gently toward the Crimson net. Morrill had been drawn from his post, and with no one on guard. Coady reached out and with the tip of his stick turned the disc aside, saving what would have been the winning score. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Tudor, Gross l.w. r.w. Rogers, R. Fryberger Scott, Chase c. c. Gardner, Bayler Zarakov, Stanley...