Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wilfully, deliberately and viciously attempted to nullify the operation of the laws for the punishment of crime in the State of Virginia." Cried Representative Smith: "I do not contend that a judge may be impeached for an honest difference of opinion but I do aver and proclaim that a judge is impeachable who is either, first, so ignorant of the law as to be flagrantly incompetent or, second, who knowing the law, releases on the world a self-confessed murderer of the most vicious type." Stirred to immediate action the House voted (209-to-150) to have its Judiciary Committee...
...home in Abington, Pa. Lessing Julius Rosenwaldt board chairman of Sears. Roebuck & Co., answered the telephone. The voice he heard was that of a man who had sent him three letters demanding $100,000 on pain of "cruel, ruthless and vicious death" for him. his wife and five children. On another telephone Mr. Rosenwald's family telephoned police who traced the call, then raced to the store from which the voice came. Mr. Rosenwald went on talking. Said he afterwards: "First we talked about the money and tried to effect a compromise, and you know that always takes time...
...turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself elected Governor. So vicious were Huey Long's attacks that Governor Parker sued him for criminal slander, won a conviction. The judge, however, suspended sentence because of "the rashness of youth." Later Huey Long helped that judge on to the State Supreme Court...
...decency and humility, the star of Burke, the Christian and the gentleman, and the wisdom of the ages--set against his villains--what one is tempted to describe as the sheer pantheistic bewilderment of Coleridge, the "dolce far niente" leisure of Rousseau on the Lac de Bienne, the vicious practice of "mixing oneself with the landscape," the idyllic imagination, Romantic nostalgia, Romantic irony, or the confusion of "profound philosophy with what is at best only a holiday or week-end view of existence...
...regularly with fat worms, big bugs. Once it fell upon a blue jay which appeared in the yard, drove it away. Apparently wearied by this diversion the cock robin retreated for a few hours to a telephone wire. As the 17th day passed its attacks grew less & less vicious...