Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general sales tax, such as recently proposed for Massachusetts, the governor described as "one of the most subtly vicious taxes ever devised," since it cuts into the poor man's dollar far more than the rich...
Publisher Nast, protesting to the press that the whole thing was, inexplicably, a complete mystery to the editors of Vogue, declared, "I was particularly distressed that these slurring comments should have been printed in Vogue especially during these days of cruel, vicious and unreasoning persecution of Jews." While the indignant telegrams began to pile up on his desk, Conde Nast held back the 130,000 copies that had not yet been distributed, scored out the offending legends. But 150,-ooo distributed copies were beyond recall. And of course Mr. Nast demanded Mr. Beaton's resignation as photographer and artist...
...Benjamin Franklin could deplore the power of a grown man when he acquired "a Press, and a huge Pair of BLACKING BALLS," how much more dangerous are the caprices of irresponsible students. A thoughtless attack, a distortion of fact that may seem funny at the time, a vicious opinion purporting to state college sentiment, these are all within the power of college editors, and these are the things that can cut short a career, besmirch a character or hinder the work of an endowed institution...
...great race to rearm is a vicious circle of panic and increasing expense. It benefits no one, leads to war, and, most serious of all, creates an atmosphere in which the peaceful adjustment of fundamental problems is increasingly difficult. There is no need for the United States to add to this chaos. War is not inevitable. Our influence must continue to be a force for sanity and reason and not for panic, for law and order and not for aggression,-for peace...
...German girls between 18 and 21 must be members of a league whose name is "Work, Beauty & Faith," whose object is the beautification of women by such proper Aryan measures as physical culture and rhythmic dancing -not however by the use of lipsticks and other cosmetics which are vicious foreign importations...