Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named Hell's Angel. So vicious that in five years no one has ridden him the prescribed ten seconds at the garden, Hell's Angel on opening night Bought about the downfall of one Fritz 1 ruan only a yard out of the chute...
...children by chasing them off the forbidden fields with oaths and other epithets. If not chased away, the urchins would steal the athletic equipment. The more they steal, the more they are chased, the more they are chased, the more they steal. Thus the situation presents a sort of vicious circle, from which nobody ever emerges, as a high birthrate in Allston equals the rate of supply of Harvard managers...
...this point that Governor Quinn, declaring that he would rid Rhode Island of a "vicious influence." swore out the dramatically-served warrant for Mr. O'Hara's arrest. Released on $5,000 bail supplied by Mayor McCoy, he was immediately rearrested on another warrant sworn out by Adman William E. Beehan whom he had called in the Star-Tribune a briber, released on similar bail from the same source. Next day he was back at his office for the running of the $25,000 Narragansett Special, which he had threatened to open to the public free, with...
...chowchow-breeders have long considered the chowchow the most vicious of domestic dogs. They are singleminded, leonine, black-mouthed, fiery-eyed beasts, interested only in their owners and sometimes surly even to them. Last week a chowchow leaped malevolently into the news...
...committee, financed by a $50,000 grant from the Hays office and manned by such potent schoolmen as Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director Mark May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, is to break this vicious circle by opening the vaults of Hollywood for school use. Four years ago broad-beamed Educator May and Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged by Arthur...