Word: vile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter is consistently more vile...
...clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice and what he actually means is: "Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly attempting to link a couplet with...
...dare we lift our eyes to Thee, for we are guilty, as a nation, of tolerating the practice of vile mob murder...
...think so much of girl students. In fact, he discouraged them by keeping his office in a constant fog of smoke." Radcliffe's Ada Louise Comstock, who once served as Smith's dean, recalled a Neilson lecture on the evils of tobacco which began: "Smoking is a vile, unhygienic, distasteful habit to which I am addicted." Said Dean Joseph F. Sullivan of Jesuit Holy Cross: "If you are to behold his monument, look about you." At this point Dr. Neilson bobbed up to remark: "Many of you have been my friends for years but I never before realized...
Married. Evelyn Waugh, 33, British satirist (Decline & Fall, Vile Bodies); and Laura Herbert, 20; in London...