Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingo-Bango-Bungo. With his new riches, Billy began to gild the Rose. He acquired a fancy flat, a new wardrobe, a valet, an ornamental but vicious green macaw. In 1924, he got still another source of income: the Backstage Club, a little "speak" which he established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired...
...example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
...Marx he presents is a man with his brain cut out. Hence the facts add up to a caricature. Schwarzschild's thesis is that Karl Marx was 1) a rabbinical thinker whose pyramids of abstract logic were brilliant, but had nothing to do with facts; 2) a vicious egomaniac determined to ruin any man or group that he could not dominate; 3) a political seer whose prognostications were almost always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology; 5) an economist whose economic knowledge was perfunctory and puerile. Marx's mind...
godin, who pitched creditably, came to grief on hits to right field, where Len Lunder had trouble with two long drives that resulted in home runs and produced three B. C. runs. The Eagles scored in the first inning when Frank O'Sullivan's vicious double to left scored John Brosnahan, who had walked, from first base...
Adoption of the Truman doctrine means that American foreign policy has become the unconditional opposition to Russian expansion. It means that where American interests do not coincide with the interests of Democracy, American interests will take precedence. United States support of a vicious and corrupt Greek monarchy makes this fact increasingly apparent. In short, the policy of the Truman administration indicates that the extension of Democracy is to play second fiddle to the checking of Communism...