Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disposition of printing material which, whatever the intention, has the effect of coming between author and reader is wrong. It follows that is the printing of books meant to be read there is little room for "bright" typography. Even dullness and monotony is the typesetting are far less vicious to a reader than typographical eccentricity or pleasantry...
...Camera Overseas, LIFE offered six pages of foreign pictures, including a shot of a vicious Bombay rioter, another of two old Russian collectivist farmers in a bath. For its promised party-of-the-week, LIFE went with British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to a hunt at the estate of the Comte de Fels near Paris. Readers are shown the famed and wealthy guests, the small army of beaters, the luxurious luncheon which punctuated the proceedings. LIFE'S last picture in its first appearance is the enormous bag of this day's sport-row after row of lifeless hare...
...will and refusing to find evidences of influence or unfitness on the part of the testatrix, it seems probable that the University will receive between 30% and 40% of the estate, that is, between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Judge Sheridan said in part: "There is a vicious notion prevalent that any will not acceptable to the testator's next of kin may be broken in the courts upon very frivolous grounds". Since in the great majority of cases the superior court upholds the decision of the lower, the University would seem to be in line...
...must have a refurbished philosophy and a youthful leadership. The unweildy, amorphous mass of New Dealers are, at some point, going to be rent over weighting the scales in favor of labor, over the tax on corporation's profits, the Social Security Act, over the probability or actuality of vicious inflation. When this time comes, the Republicans must be prepared to assume the role of aggressive leadership. Therefore it is necessary to begin now, not a few months before Sovember, 1940, in the great task of rebuilding a party and taking up the gage of combat...
...summary, it is heartening to realize that the crawling parasites whose tentacles had wound around parties and platforms alike during the fevered days of the campaign, have been cast off and stamped under the heel of the voters of America. Their end was gain, their methods vicious lies or nebulous promises. But their days are numbered, and their sway ended. The Coughlins, Curleys, Lemkes, Smiths and others have been discarded to the rubbish heap of American opinion. Is it too much to dream that America will keep them there? Dare we hope that we will remain as free of these...