Word: vile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a lull during vile weather, the air war against Germany picked up in full force as 1,500 U.S. planes attacked Berlin and Brunswick, forcing the Luftwaffe fighter command into a savage battle which cost 125 Nazi fighters against 26 U.S. bombers and 19 fighters...
Swept the vile invader from our path...
...rather more fervent than fertile minds of his gag-writers (three of whom, he claims, are beavers) have made good pictures out of the most terrible ones, and they have done it once again with "Let's Face It." No matter how stale the plot or how vile the odour of his surroundings, Hope spring eternal...
...MIRAKEL -E. Phillips Oppenheim - Little, Brown ($2). The Oppen-heimily-colored, romantic and adventurous tale of a rich London hotel owner who transported a bevy of war-weary cosmopolites to a fantastic Utopia where man, of course, decided to be entertainingly vile. Good Oppenheim and pleasant diversion for an empty evening...
...annual pilgrimage to Ome Tochtli (Two Rabbit, God of Drunkenness) in Tepoxtlaá, staggered into Mexico City last week to find themselves bedeviled by cops, shrill women and crackdowns, tempted with low-taxed beer. The Mexican Government was full swing in its campaign to wean peons away from their vile national drink, pulque (pronounced pool-kay), educate them up to beer...