Word: vile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police cannot arrest the drunken thug, if they will not stop the plot before it is carried out, we had better form vigilance bodies and save the expense of the whole police machinery. Three times in a public place (restaurants) attacked and abused by vile language is making a rendezvous for crime, when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself...
Among the vile epithets applied to Bolshevism perhaps the most odious is "International". The "Reds" are supposed to violate every feeling of national unity and to eradicate from their breasts every patriotic sentiment. Of this experiment of the arch anti-Bolshevists there can be but one explanation: the Fascists have turned missionaries. The world must be made safe for the new gospel of arrogant bourgeois nationalism. A cohort of eloquent gesticulators will be dispatched throughout Europe, and behold! the new era. When the whole continent turns Fascist, the international problem will be dead, and internal affairs will run like...
...opportunity of rising to confront Lord Cecil with his black slander on the U. S. A situation had undoubtedly been created that called for diplomatic handling. Mr. Porter was anything but suave, he fell in Lord Cecil's error, replied angrily that the charge was a false and vile slander. Once Lord Cecil arose to withdraw his statement, but Mr. Porter would not yield the floor. Said he: "You can reply later." He went on to defend the U. S., quoted figure after figure, and ended with a transposition of James Russell Lowell's famed phrase...
...cowered from her sight for shame of his color, and all the more so when she impulsively sent him a picture of her lovely sister, in place of her own likeness. When Hebe discovered David's secret, she loved him notwithstanding. When he discovered hers, his bitterness was vile. He recovered, but without much grace, and this second climax is shaky. The baseless sentimentality with which it breaks off, cannot, however, alter the validity of the black Elisha...
...That no scholars give or receive at any time any treat or collation upon account of ye football play, on or about Michaelmas Day, further than Colledge beere or ale in ye open halle to quenche their thirsts. And particularly that that most vile custom of drinking and spending money--Sophisters and Freshmen together--upon ye account of making or not making a speech at that football time be utterly left off and extinguished...