Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shady characters. No. 1 shammer in the past of U. S. cities, he returns from each exploration with a rich scum of superlatives. The Gangs of New York (1928) found old Manhattan a gaslit Gomorrah without peer. The Barbary Coast (1933) offered pre-earthquake San Francisco as the most vicious spot in the U. S. The French Quarter (1936) revealed New Orleans unrivaled in vice on a sinful planet. This week, with Gem of the Prairie, Mr. Asbury peers down the cesspool of Chicago, convincingly awards it first place among U. S. cities for vices both elegant and depraved...
...faces a Federal charge of income-tax evasion when he gets out. Fumed Pegler, the whole union is "A vicious racket preying on the rank and file of American worked...
...letters and cables from U. S. ambulance drivers and nurses in France. Example: Ambulance Driver Elizabeth Adams wrote to her Providence, R. I. parents: "Dearest Family ... I have been bombed-oh God -if you knew how it felt to have a plane go over you like a dark, vicious shark and see it drop its bombs. . . . We are often machine-gunned. . . . The planes come down so close. Damn them! ... I am frightened, yes-oh God-terrified. ... I was almost crazy with fear, but I had a job to do-to get out those kids (220 refugee children...
...fourth war front, radio propaganda, anything goes. From France refugee Cinema Director Max Ophuls has been conducting a vicious, satirical aerial bombardment of Germany. Ophuls' barrage, according to Variety last week, is directed specifically for the Führer's ears. Against a background of soft music and the monotonous ticking of a metronome, a voice drones...
...Americans who want this country to go to war. But they have been afraid to say so, for fear of losing their standing. Instead, they have resorted to "educating" the American people to the real "issues" in Europe. They are hypocrites, and their writings are the purest and most vicious propaganda. In one mood, they hiss and spit their scorn of isolationism; in another they cower before it, paralyzed by a fear that keeps them from voicing their innermost feelings. But the President, as the leader of not only the United States, but the Western Hemisphere...