Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Afterwards Secretary Mellon commented on Mr. Means' testimony: "It is merely vicious piffle...
There is one major Harvard sport which has been perhaps more notable for lean years than any other during the past decade; that is track. Stars there have been scattered through the decade, but lonely stars without even good, average settings. A kind of vicious circle of cause and effect was set in motion. Harvard was not considered much of a "track" college, track was relegated to a quasi position between the major and the minor sports, and secondary school track stars were magnetized away by the prowess of Yale or Princeton or Cornell...
...POTTERS-Vicious little jabs of satire at the aimless life of middle class America...
Whatever happens, British politics will continue to career about in a vicious circle until another, and probably not far-distant, general election restores some semblance of rectangular solidity in the House of Commons. Until that time, whichever party holds the reins of the stately old Government coach, that worthy vehicle will continue to circle an eccentric perimeter, despite the efforts of the Cabinet driver to go straight ahead...
...child is born in a gaudy Marseilles brothel. Joint maintenance of her honor and her offspring under such circumstances is magically accomplished in the best manner of melodrama. Matters seem to be mending until a vicious paternal grandfather appears and essays to take the child from her by law, alleging that she is not fit to rear her own. By a fortunate coincidence she is enabled to whisk the lad away to a friendly haven in England but only with the understanding that she never see him again...