Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME here uses advisedly a word offensive to Italians and other persons of Mediterranean origin. In the average U. S. vocabulary the word conveniently connotes foreigners of suspicious, possibly vicious character. (In distinction, "wop" seems to mean a more goodnatured individual.) Used without respect to nationality, let "dagoes" not unduly offend any national sensibilities.-ED. *The curious, eminently readable, 89-year-old Nassau Guardian, semiweekly (circulation 3,000), composed on old tombstones and jointly owned by Miss Mary Moseley and Knowlton Lyman ("Junior") Ames of Chicago, assistant to Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News...
With righteous indignation, Bisbee recently called to the attention of the Watch and Ward Society the "Vicious libels" of the current number of the Lampoon, although perversely enough he had contributed to the publication...
Vital statistics compiled at Butler reveal, moreover, "some marry for money, some for love, but most of them for a short time." The course, therefore, has a significant purpose in this vicious world, and should consequently be inaugurated with a grand celibation. Perhaps it might even be attended with schemes for a House Plan and the necessary corporate personalities. But if it is to do anything but scratch the mater, the course must embrace a longer period than the average college half-course. For it will take a full course to prevent at least half of the male population from...
Sued. Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. and Vitaphone Corp.; by J. Harold Hardy, Georgia chain gang warden; for $1,000,000 each for "vicious, untrue and false attacks" in Warner's film / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, cinematized from Fugitive Robert Elliott Burns's book (TIME, Jan. 2); in Atlanta...
...expensive winter resort, Palm Beach, jotting down many a note of things seen & heard. Some of these ten short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, but they would make good reading for the grimmest Communist. With few exceptions the people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven, but bourgeois opinion still holds that Palm Beach and romance go hand in hand. Author Hergesheimer does a good best to prick this bubble. Some of the stories...