Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Decent People. Beaten Milt Murray declined to be renominated, and got loud applause for saying: "There has been some pretty vicious politics . . . and I contributed my share. We've fought like a bunch of goddam kids. Let's see if we can't grow up and act like decent people...
...gathered at the home of Siqueiros' mother-in-law, after which sympathetic younger painters added a few words of their own. Excerpts: "Once America reflected movements in European art 25 years afterwards; now it is Europe that reflects us 25 years later. . . . Modern Paris art has entered a vicious circle, walking around & around like a mule at a well. . . . Mexican mural painting . . . has reached much nearer the masses...
...battle reached its climax in the Senate last week, Kentucky's Alben William Barkley stood up to give his views. Said he: "If every organization in the United States . . . endorsed the bill I would still be against it ... it is vicious legislation." The talk was of railroads, said Barkley, but the bill applied also to water carriers, buses, trucks, pipelines and freight forwarders. It would "impose a transportation monopoly." Why not exempt U.S. Steel, Alcoa, Standard Oil and International Harvester...
...Company. In Philadelphia, Myer Apfelbaum sued a movie theater for $1,500 damages caused by his own "ferocious and vicious" cat, which had been, he said, a gentle tabby before the theater manager borrowed it as a mouser for a couple of months...
...Kansas City. They blasted open the election board's vault with nitroglycerin, stole most of the grand jury's evidence: ballots, poll books and tally sheets. Cried Missouri's Republican state chairman: "The Pendergast machine under the protection of Harry S. Truman is as rampant and vicious as it was when directed by Harry Truman's mentor, Tom Pendergast...