Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jeremy Collier, Bishop of the English Church in the early 18th Century? he who helped to purge the vicious stage of the Restoration by his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage?would turn completely over in his grave if he could read the comment of The Churchman (organ of the P. E. Church) on the present incident...
...LaFollettism: It "represents the quintessence of demagogism ani- mated by the vicious purpose of undermining the constitutional foundation of the Republic...
Returning to the trenches, Dick Chapelle brings with him the ring with which Roddy Dunton had affianced Violet Deering. Chapelle has suc ceeded Dunton in her heedlessly wavering affections. They quarrel. In the attack the following day, Dunton gives Chapelle false orders. He returns blinded. Overcome with the vicious cowardice at his act, Dunton shoots himself. Chapelle, sightless, returns to London, to find that the girl has engaged herself to a luxuriously wealthy peer...
...entire earth into the dark abyss of barbarism, pauperism and serfdom to the advantage and satisfaction of only a small group of fanatics and a dissolute group of men who have lost honor and conscience, and hope to exploit this upheaval for the gratification of their cupidity and vicious appetites...
...Gompers but its Vice President, Matthew Woll*) : "General Dawes has said that Samuel Gompers and other Trade Union officials are more concerned about the right of Union men to assault and murder peaceful citizens than about upholding the law of the land. No one has made a more vicious and unwarranted declaration than that...