Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more important criminals a halo of sensational romance which makes them appear like heroes, fighting valiantly for their lives in prejudiced courtrooms. Moving Pictures and detective novels have also helped to show that murderers are only martyrs and sneak thieves are honest men forced under by society. The less vicious male-factors pass through the courtroom with scarcely a word of comment but the Loebs and the Leopolds are swamped with notes of genuine sympathy...
...courts is responsible for the severity of the speed. But for this terrifying attempt on undergraduate life, there must surely be other contributing reasons, however occult. Perhaps it is a new expression of the old antipathy between Town and Gown. There is also the hypothesis that the vicious driver, instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly passing beyond that stage characterized by Dean Swift...
...pronouncement of Cardinal Hayes that "decent people cannot go to the theatre" makes the members of the nascent Harvard Theatregoers Club seem a singularly vicious set of young...
...remind us greatly of a History 1 lecture. Cases have been known, when students showing their innocence of one charge, have been fined on the strength of a dear old statute saying that cars cannot be parked in any part of Cambridge for over an hour. And yet a vicious thug, on July 8, 1924, was convicted of house breaking, and of larceny, but his case was filed...
...might have said that censorship is "vicious", or "subversive of truth". It would even have been better to say that George Washington picks the all-American football squad, and that Walter Camp was the first President of the United States: that Cleopatra was a saint, and that Joan of Arc a naughty, naughty girl; but never that censorship is un-American. Anything but that...