Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when confronted by a danger like this. Indeed, the University authorities well might search their hearts carefully to find out how it happens that even one of the young men whom they supposed to be teaching reason and truth should have been led astray by such vicious and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting to them. Only in the case of the greenest of Freshmen could such a thing be possible, if Harvard training effects its designed ends...
...Klan. As was predicted Harvard has laughed at its Klan. But at the same time it is hard to disagree with the conclusion of the New York Times that it is cause for serious reflection "that even one of the young men. . . should have been led astray by such vicious, and absurd arguments as the Ku Klux Klan has been presenting to them...
Little Johnny Jones. Of course, some day some producer with nihilistic tendencies will present a racehorse story in which the hero doesn't win. His losing will be due to the success of plots concocted by the vicious opposing owner. His girl, forthwith, will desert him and his horse refuse to recognize him socially...
...code of journalistic ethics which condemns " deliberate pandering to vicious instincts...
...moral purpose, it supplies incentives to base conduct, such as are to be found in details of crime and vice, publication of which is not demonstrably for the general good. Lacking authority to enforce its canons, the journalism here represented can but express the hope that deliberate pander to vicious instincts will encounter effective public disapproval or yield to the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation...