Word: vile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor Thompson, "the worst political derelict pestering Chicago." Nor does it matter that Senator Deneen was the good...
After this purely political appeal, Lawyer Gabaldon settled down to cases. He flayed Katherine Mayo, the palpitant, middle-aged maiden lady from Manhattan, whose Isles of Fear preceded her Mother India as a sensational bestseller, calling her a "vile propagandist" who had represented as typical of the Philippines such "filth" as she could find in the "sewers." He cited for inconsistency with the present Philippine policy of the U. S., many a glowing period on liberty and independence by President Coolidge, Charles Evan Hughes, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. He argued that the Philippines were capable of economic independence, even...
...gymnasiums, swimming pools and compulsory athletics for freshmen the college has advanced far, yet shadowed by such achievement the problem of sugar bowls in the Freshman Dormitories has been sadly neglected. Not only residents but visitors have observed the scarcity of sugar bowls, particularly in Smith Halls, and the vile condition of the remaining minority. The situation has reached a crisis; it demands instant action...
Such is the case of M. Pierre Weber, who has taken as personal affront the remark of M. Rostand, fils, that his play was vile and did not contain a single amusing word. Whether or not the young author's anger was aroused by the first or the second of the allegations is beside the point. In any event, his friends sought out the critic with a challenge. After deliberating during the week-end, M. Rostand made it known that he would not be one to set a precedent of killing playrights since such "recourse to arms was inadmissible...
Nearly everyone agreed on faults. The play dragged toward the end. As age smothered the characters their dramatic interest dwindled slightly. The asides were not always accurately and shrewdly handled; the new technique was necessarily a trifle coarse. Rose the inevitable foolish chorus that Nina was a vile female and should never have been written up at all. Some strove to discredit it with the growl that O'Neill had simply taken many findings of the psychoanalysts and copied them into his characters...