Word: vilely
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...army officer who was forced to pay $50 a month rent for quarters next door to prostitutes, quarters from which Negroes had been evicted so that higher rents could be charged. From Beaumont, Tex. she wrote that the stink from the city's garbage dump "is so vile over the Pennsylvania yards that the whole shift has to be pulled off the ships, causing the loss of thousands of man-hours of work. If the wind changes, the people of Beaumont are nauseated and nearly choked...
Stockholm "informed sources" (often mouthpieces for the Nazis) let it be known that British Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, long in comfortable durance vile in Germany, had asked Sweden for a residence permit...
...three-day trek into the regions beyond I personally got more than 100 leech bites-I counted them carefully-in spite of heavy army boots and gaiters, and in spite of constantly picking the vile creatures off my legs, arms and neck! One night we spent in a little shack which was so dirty and wet and crowded that we hardly slept at all. The sandflies were absolutely appalling. The next night we came rather unexpectedly to a clean, well-ordered Chinese camp. Here was a Chinese colonel, an interpreter who spoke Chinese, English, Urdu, Hindu, Bengali, Nepali and Assamese...
...last sentence, which calls him a man without genius, who only in a few pages becomes a great artist, is as vile a slur as I ever hoped to see in your pages...
...much store on birth and money. This circumstance made ordinary Britons grumble and suspect that the Commandos were officered by undemocratic pantywaists. The lists of Commando officers did indeed include many a prewar playboy, many an old, famous and sometimes weary name. Among them were Author Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies, Scoop, Put Out More Flags), who had transferred from the Royal Marines; Sir Roger's son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, who last year died leading a Commando raid on Rommel's headquarters in Libya; Winston's son, Captain Randolph Churchill, who is on duty in the Middle...