Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faced with such magnificent swindling, it will seem to many that a sentence of only three to six years was out of all proportion to the seriousness of the crime. Small-town burglars and grocery store robbers usually get as much and more than this for offences incomparably less vicious and less inexcusable. It is but natural to demand that the laws be made more strict and the punishment more drastic...
Publishing the names of the banks to which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation extended aid has been characterized as a "vicious action" by Senator Atlee Pomerene, erstwhile mentor of the relief organization. He argues that the publication was in the nature of an unwise and unnecessary sop to public curiosity, and might have succeeded in undoing all the good that the loans had achieved. The unequivocal anger of his remarks indicates that he had operated under the misapprehension that no transactions were to be divulged, and that he views the public statement in the nature of a personal betrayal...
...also distracts the heathen big black Brother Moses from pure contemplation of the moon. Back in Hope Baptist Church, Pastor Jones is conducting a six-day camp meeting to bring his straying lamb back to the fold. Jim sees the error of his ways, returns to Ella. The vicious Sulamai is killed by a bolt of lightning at the church door...
...third thing which we must do is to get industry moving by furnishing direct and indirect employment on government work such as the development of Muscle Shoals and of other great power projects. We need above all things, to break the vicious circle of inaction. It is true that these developments by furnishing more power more easily, or, in the case of irrigation projects, by furnishing more land to provide food for an already overstocked market, seem, ultimately, to defeat their ends, but this is not necessarily so. If more power reduces the number of laborers necessary in one field...
...illustrate rot in the national fibre, Poet O'Neil introduces an incongruous parade of vicious types, an interpolation wooden enough to make a 13th Century miracle play seem like a production by Noel Coward. All four sexes are represented, besides a Banker, a Society Boy, a Negro Poet, an Indian Lecturer, an Agitator, a Sweet Old Thing. It is not surprising that these, and his thrill-chasing wife, drive young Daniel to self-destruction as the curtain falls...