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...whose eyes a vile person is contemned: but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Citizen of Zion | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...matter is consistently more vile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critic Finds 'Sound Supplants Sense' in Work of Hillyer, Boylston Professor | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critic Finds 'Sound Supplants Sense' in Work of Hillyer, Boylston Professor | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...dare we lift our eyes to Thee, for we are guilty, as a nation, of tolerating the practice of vile mob murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: How Dare We? | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neilson's 20th | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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