Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
...Meanwhile swine command good prices. So, next season, farmers turn their acres over to swine, feeding them on the almost worthless corn. Then, in the course of nature, they get too many swine and not enough corn. Down swine-price. Up corn-price. Next season farmers plant corn, and vicious is the circle. Furthermore, this corn-swine see-saw is apt to be exaggerated?an exaggeration of an exaggeration? in city corn-exchanges where gamblers get giddy...
...People greatly exaggerate the dangers of the tropical countries. They seem to think they are swarming with poisonous snakes and vicious insects. All one has to do is use common sense," continued Dr. Allen. "It was however quite difficult to get around. We had to do all our travelling on foot over the narrow rough paths which wind through the dense tropical forests. There are little villages mere clusters of straw huts scattered throughout the interior of Liberia. Our native porters did not want to leave their own villages too far behind so we had to hire a different...
They discovered the modern Natty Bumppo before the cage of a vicious looking animal whose atmospheric environment was suggestive of a certain odiferous animal beloved...
...since. Denver was not a soft town. And there was that in it, a scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant, vicious, ignorant and also foolish, reckless and genuinely happy young people. Out of minor bench in a secondary U. S. city, Judge Lindsey has made national rostrum...