Word: vile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked up about it. The whole idea seems to give one the impression that life is futile. What's the good of looking forward if always there hangs a cloud of envy, spite, malice, etc., etc. over countries which are in themselves beautiful and where only man is vile...
...vote, Bud Gearhart could doubtless have caused Democrat Elliott to be the first Representative formally censured (called to the well for a wigging by the Speaker) since Tom Blanton of Texas in 1921, who wangled into the Record, in an extension of remarks, a string of obscenities so vile that they had to be expunged from the permanent Record, torn out of the Congressional Library's temporary copy...
...given by the Guinnesses for their servants in 1926 at their town house in London, Meraud and her sister, Tanis, entertained with songs & sketches. They and their innumerable cousins of the rich and fecund Guinness family (brewing) were chief among the Bright Young People whom Evelyn Waugh parodied in Vile Bodies. One of their inventions was the Treasure Hunt-a fad which began by perturbing nocturnal London, traveled to the high schools of the Far West, became the Scavenger Hunt and returned to Paris via the cinema (TIME, March...
...Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must...
...when he wrote The Loom of Youth, Alec Waugh was hailed as a promising young writer. All through his 20s he heard the cry repeated. When his younger, sprightlier brother Evelyn (Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall) achieved immediate and continued success, reviewers had not tired of telling readers to watch Alec. Last week, with his thirty-first book, Going Their Own Ways (Farrar & Rinehart $2.50), 40-year-old Alec Waugh was i promising writer still. But it had long been obvious that he would never be as good as his model, John Galsworthy...