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Word: vicious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rope. A soldier passed down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those in the ears of the crowd, trailing a red finger towed by a tiny airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Aberdeen Show | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...beast. But then he has to promise to ride Bountiful, Patsy Ruth's own horse. Panic-stricken he feeds the horse apples and water which swell it out of drawing. She discovers him, tears flow, the race comes. With tremendous will power he secretly buys the vicious Hottentot, dons the girl's colors, rides the race after having disabused Patsy Ruth's mind as to his identity. Of course he wins both the race, the final kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...predilection for the Atlantic Monthly and the notion that it is wicked to take two cocktails before dinner. In Gambling, Actor Cohan visits a crisp tart at her bedizened lodgings and in his offers to pay for the upkeep of herself and them, a suspicion of the most vicious improprieties causes her merely to chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Stephens, Negro, 21, 5 ft. 7 in., for breaking jail, for attacking park couples. Warning: "Vicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...feet as Brooklyn's Tony Canzoneri, tough challenger, rushed and slashed, came close to rocking Rockford's sheik to sleep. Then class told and Tony Canzoneri found himself taking many a left jab, many a deft hook, on the chin, on flattened nose, in his lean torso. Baffled but vicious, the Italian continued his savage rushes. To "Long Count" Dave Barry, referee, they looked convincing. But not so convincing to the ringside judges. So, after ten hard rounds, by vote of 2 to 1, Sammy Mandell kept his seldom-risked crown, was very glad the struggle was no 15-rounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sheik's Crown | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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