Word: vile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebuked with measured scorn and thoroughly dressed down by the Speaker, for "the gross indignity offered to Parliament and the vile discourtesy done to the House of Lords" (TIME, July 12), by Laborite M. P.'s who cat-called and booed among themselves while a message from the King was read...
Pompous street criers strode last week through the narrow, vile and crowded thoroughfares of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. What the criers intoned in majestic Persian, their attendants translated freely into vulgar Pushtoo. Soon the 100,000 citizens of Kabul rejoiced that there Amir* ("Sovereign Lord") Amanullah Khan had conferred upon himself by proclamation the title "King...
...beer that is non-intoxicating in fact to the average person, and distributed by the Government under regulation, not allowed to be sold in saloons or public places, or drunk upon the premises, the people would take to the drinking of that sort of beverage instead of drinking the vile hard liquor that we now have, and that it would promote temperance and would aid you in suppressing the illicit still and the bootlegger...
...chimeras which the Society is fighting in its campaign for the 'New Puritanism.' Sit in my office day in and day out, and hear the moral tragedies recited, and you will realize that out of the heart are the issues of life, and these tragedies are often connected with vile books and pictures. A whole class of unwedded mothers may be the result of a lascivious book...
...Gentlemen of the Jury, do your duty. I ask for no clemency for Dumini. I will not remind you to what martyrdom, to what vile defamation, to what wicked provocations we Fascist! were continuously subjected for months after Matteotti's disappearance. I will not remind you of the suffering of our mothers and our children when we blackshirts daily left our houses without knowing whether we would return. I .will not mention the tears of the mothers, the relatives of the martyrs to our cause, when at the moment they thought their sacrifices might have been made in vain...