Word: vile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tucked away in a corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...
...Such Vile Language. A crowd had gathered on Capitol Hill, in the raw rain. They had begun to arrive early in the morning. Many of them were Negroes, there to see what the U.S. Senate would do about Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. His Republican enemies had sworn they would bar him, figuratively speaking, at the door...
They had the minority report (signed by two of their members) of the Senate's Campaign Expenditures Committee on his 1946 election campaign: "Never to the knowledge of the undersigned has such vile, inflammatory and dangerous language been uttered . . . for the purpose of procuring nomination." The committee's majority report, signed by Democrats, was a whitewash...
...Communist Lenin wrote incisively: "On the one hand, an extraordinarily powerful, direct and sincere protest against social lies and hypocrisy; on the other, a Tolstoyan, that is, a wornout, historical sniveler called the Russian intellectual, who, publicly beating his breast, cries: 'I am bad, I am vile, but I am striving after moral self-perfection. . . .' " Yet Stalin's government has hailed Tolstoy as a literary hero of the Russian people...
Inner Man. In Manhattan, Jesse Blades, in happy retirement after 20 years as a cop, saw a police signal box, obeyed his impulse, got a court reprimand for shouting "vile and abusive language" into...