Word: vilely
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...does my father say that?" cried Rachael. "He called my sweetheart vile names. . . . He said he would burn my eyes out, and my sweetheart said he would cut my father's throat. And he's going to burn my dresses. He didn't buy the dresses. I did. I paid for them with money I worked like a dog for. Why doesn't he leave us alone...
Next day was Friday, the Moslem sabbath. To a mosque jammed with zealots the priest raged against "accursed Christians and the adoption of their vile habits by some Persian women." With the tirade at its height, suddenly the congregation was startled by the ring of spurs on the stone mosque floor...
...former member of the French Foreign Legion has remarked, "predominantly it is composed of men of violence, bums, morons of vile habits and booty-hunting louts." But La Légion Etrangère has, with great courage and rigid discipline, conquered a great part of the French Colonial Empire, second largest in the world. Last week the unsavory but effective Legion celebrated its 100th Anniversary-or rather...
...Flaying racketeering, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Klein declared: "A monstrous growth, a vile, malignant para site rising from the slime of criminal greed ! . . . This evil must be rooted out if American business is to progress vigorously again...
...them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical Co., paid his board bill with stock. Midlanders viewed him with distrust and in 1900 brought suit charging that the Dow plants depreciated property, filled the town with vile and injurious odors. But by then Dow Chemical had been formed to take over Midland Chemical and another company Dr. Dow had formed; was well able to defend itself. Since 1900, Midlanders have changed their attitude toward Dow Chemical Co. and the Dow family. The company's plant stretches over...