Word: vile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding was inaugurated. ... On that day corrupt and sinister financial conspiracies . . . took possession of the Government . . . bribes . . . scaly hands . . . conspirators. . . . "The first act of Coolidge was to approve the policies of the Harding Administration. . . . Coolidge continued at the head of the Department of Justice, Harry M. Daugherty, as vile an insect as ever crawled across the page of time. He consorted with criminals and took as his bedfellow a grafter and bribetaker [Jesse Smith], who afterwards suicided. . . . Coolidge never lifted a hand. He remained as mum and inactive as a Boston oyster stranded on the beach in the month...
...Marja (Mariana) Michalska, named Gilda Gray by Sophie Tucker, was born in Krakow, Poland, and early came to the U. S. with her laborer father. She married a bartender and left him to earn her own living, which she started to do in vile "honkytonks" with sawdust on the floor-at eight dollars a week. She once related that when she went to conquer Manhattan the city so nearly conquered her that she and a girl who came with her from the west decided to kill themselves. Now she is one of the most highly paid dancers in the world...
...courage of Sandino," said Excelsior, "is not understood by vile souls incapable of gentlemanly acts, who would have placed in the electric chair even Don Quixote as a punishment for his most gallant adventures...
Minister Smiddy's large Irish audience must have recalled the vile, unlighted, peat-huts in which some of them were born. Into these, electric light! The old Ireland passes...
...this vein, appearing in the Communistic Daily Worker, induced one David Gordon also to write a poem. He called it "America," and in it, by crass terms, described the Goddess of Liberty in New York Harbor as looking down upon a land where liberty no longer thrived. So vile did three New York judges think the boy's phrases, so indecent his imagery that they would not excuse his adolescence. Last week they ordered him to the reformatory for 13 months. Three other judges had already sentenced Editor William F. Dunne of the Daily Worker to 30 days...