Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wild Dog of the Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." He had never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury...
...Freshman Uniforms: We are not under the delusion that this action, which deprives our already poverty-stricken daily of sorely-needed shekels, will prevent the Hun School from acquainting its disciples, with the schedule of cramming hours; but we do believe that wholesale, last-minute tutoring exerts a vicious influence on the intellectual life of the University...
...story that would show their star to the best advantage, but when they got through they hadn't left anything for Messers McKenna and Rathbone, which perhaps is just as well. It is one of those plots in which New York society is proved to be just another vicious circle. In order to escape the indecency of being named as a corespondent in a divorce case Kenneth McKenna contracts with his stenographer to marry her for one year, or until the ugly situation blows over. Its a purely business measure as far as he is concerned. Constance goes...
...result is one of those famous 'vicious circles.' Even in case our export trade yielded us a surplus sufficient to pay the three billion marks we owe every year, our creditors would still be paying out of their own pockets a large part of what they were collecting from us. This indisputable fact in my opinion, leads to only one solution. We cannot keep up for long meeting the demands of the Young plan...
...torrent of invective from high Legion officials, Boston politicians, and blind boosters of Americana in response to the CRIMSON'S editorial comment on the degeneracy of carnival spirit displayed at the recent convention. Men of selfish motives or blind patriotic impulse have a way of attacking sincere criticism of vicious conditions rather than vice itself...