Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After year and a half of vicious newspaper opposition, sales tax resentment, Lindbergh-Hauptmann-Wendel-Schwarzkopf misrepresentations, disappointed job seekers and political monkey-wrench-throwing of Everett Colby et al., my total vote was well within 10% of the total vote I polled in the Gubernatorial primary of 1934. Believe it or not, I consider the results of May 19 primary, 1936, as most satisfying of 15 successive political victories...
...Apostles' Creed, prayer ("When misused to shelve important issues or gain an unfair advantage over opponents in debate, it is a very objectionable thing") and singing such hymns as Blest Be the Tie That Binds ("When it is dragged in at unexpected times, it often marks some particularly vicious and unbrotherly...
...This is mad persecution advanced to the most pitiable stages of New Deal-irium," roared Royalist Jones. "While I, of course, realize that few business concerns could withstand such continued and powerful efforts at sabotage, nevertheless I warn against the dangers of vicious governmental malevolence bent on riding roughshod over individual rights and Constitutional guarantees hitherto respected by our Government...
...ugly as his disposition. There are sundry other characters moving about with appropriate mystery their evils to perform. There is a mysterious old tower which houses, one is cryptically informed, some of the weirdest specimens of taxidermical skill, a dilapidated old boat landing where sport the largest and most vicious crabs imaginable and numerous other terrible appurtenances to frighten the timid and delight the morbid...
...worse and caused many unfortunate developments in this city. His influence was directly responsible for much of the violence that occurred during the street railway strike, the strike at the Seaman Body plant, Lindemann & Hoverson etc., the passage of the famous Boncel Ordinance being one of the most vicious things in modern industrial history in any U. S. city...