Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter French peasant in a Hawaiian grass skirt was driving a span of oxen at Brissac near Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...
...long letter received last week from Mrs. Davison by her mother-in-law closed with the words: "I really feel badly about shooting them." Nevertheless museum men predicted there would be real rivalry between the Davisons for the first kill, since they meant to shoot only at "Shambas," vicious-tempered outlaws.* Mrs. Davison's letter described their airplane flight up the Nile's twisting 2,500-mi. length to meet the Johnsons. After an hour aloft, they fervently wished themselves back at Cairo. "I give you my word " wrote Mrs. Davison, "it was worse than any dream...
...dress and saunters out to the Presidio as a genteel residential lane. The first few blocks of Pacific Street today are a dreary line of warehouses, garages, shabby hotels, lunchrooms. Formerly they were the centre of San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, for nearly 70 years the most vicious and depraved spot in the U. S. The amazing scenes and incredible characters of "the Coast" are recorded by Author Asbury, descendant and biographer of the late great Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury, with the same detached amiability which characterized his Gangs of New York (TIME...
...were not for the Charles, Harvard would lie cramped between an ugly industrial city bristling with smoke-stacks and neon signs, and the cool green lawns of Brattle Street. If there were no river, men would grow vicious with no place to walk, and they would sit in smoke-filled rooms and dart like angry wasps at each other buzzing invective in ever-changing patterns. Under the blanket of heat that descends over the steeples and towers of Cambridge in the afternoon, the Charles sleeps while agile youths flit on the mirrored surface like water-spiders...
...this is fundamentally as absurd as it sounds but much less vicious. Actually, the hero and heroine of Hold Your Man resemble characters from the Morte d'Arthur much more than their counterparts in life. The picture is based on the shrewd supposition that cinemaddicts derive a pleasant reassurance from detecting-in persons with whom they can identify themselves-noble motives for bad deeds. The fact that it is completely insincere does not imply that it was inefficiently written, by Anita Loos, directed, by Sam Wood, or acted, by Hollywood's foremost specialists in sex. It contains...