Search Details

Word: vilely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Padlocked for violation of an ordinance prohibiting "lewdness, obscenity, indecency, immorality or impurity'' was Boston's Old Howard ("Always Something Doing''), famed oldtime burlesque house. At the hearing a Watch & Ward Society investigator described "vile body contortions" of a dancer. Said Mayor James Michael Curley, explaining that he had attended the show last October: "I never saw any muscle dancing there. The girls wore six-foot Turkish towels, much to the disappointment of the friends who accompanied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...subject that the reader says: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Of course this is utterly wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very reason. Since the hero, Theodore Bulpington, occupies the centre of the stage to the exclusion of other complete and living characters, the novel contains little that is less...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: BOOKENDS | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...sold to the Lelands who then owned Cadillac. One of their friends had just been killed cranking a car. Named after Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. which was formed by Mr. Kettering and later became part of GM. **Invented in 1921 after many noxious experiments which filled the laboratories with vile odors. ‡Mr. Kettering's part in the invention of Duco may be much overstated. All the transactions are shrouded in corporate history. Once Mr. Kettering was annoyed by the length of time it took to paint and dry a car. "We might be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All Change! | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...feel in a vile temper with the fools. They probably will want an extortionate ransom, but please don't bust yourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Dont Bust Yourselves | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...Lady Burghclere, was divorced two years later. He loves to travel, once gave it as his opinion that only two good travel books had ever been written: one of them The Acts of the Apostles; he intended to write the third. Other books: Rossetti: A Critical Biography, Decline & Fall, Vile Bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mischief Maker | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Previous | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | Next