Word: vile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literally diverted his peers with a baby's "comforter." Said he in a fine burst of oratory: "For two years-two years!- have striven for the opportunity which is now mine. During that time and for years previously many of the infants of France have teethed upon a vile form of rubber nipple attached to a ring. In short upon a sucette...
...wonder whether previous to those six weeks I formed a bad habit and having gotten away from it (TIME) for a while. I now ap preciate its cheapness, mostly on this article. You are on a par with the Graphic** (I read it once and honestly believe it a vile paper...
...last someone has come to their defense--don Quixote like to joust at the legions of culture and criticism. For the "New Republic" has found a champion of billboard beauty who dares to deny that nature is ever beautiful--that man, as exemplified by billboards is always vile. "This attitude," he writes, "is illogical and irreligious. There are vast stretches in New Jersey and Nebraska where billboards give life to dull vistas and a reminder that life is tolerably active elsewhere...
...here let us leave Mr. Dreiser. He has not written a great book nor a significantly vile book. He has tumbled from the pedestal upon which his cultists have placed him with such genuflections and censoring of incense. He has written a great stupid opus. He has disastrously damaged what real claims to distinction he may once have had. And while we are not among those iconoclastic dervishes who are dancing with delight over his downfall, we passionately convinced that his future will not be as rosy as his present is and his past has been...
...believe so ardently in his own immortality that he will take precautions, as he lays on his colors, for the physical endurance of the chemicals that compose them. Such a painter would say to the shopman who provides him with his materials: "The last indigo you sold me was vile. It will look like the devil in 500 years. Now I must have a chrome that will last a thousand; give me a wash that doomsday cannot crackE...