Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King's African Rifles, splendid fellow that he is, cannot bear to see such ill-mated tenderfeet wandering loose among the lions, thirst and loneliness. He turns in his steamer ticket from Mombasa to England, takes command for and of the Rawleys, gets the safari past the usual vile German agent and as far as a highland camp, three weeks from nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend upon them. Rawley indulges in the first three and then loses his unpleasant self in the ample countryside. Janet and Antrim stagger home, black-lipped and full of British...
...plot curdles. Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave. Woe is his, for Sweeney Todd, barber, gnawed by the weevil of avarice, has long had the vile habit of dropping his rich customers through the floor, chair and all, to a subterranean death chamber; there slitting their throats, robbing them, erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last...
They played pranks in those days, we learn, some that we should not dare to play now, and some that we should be ashamed to. The stealing of cannon from the government armory was a more bagatelle. One bright wit filled the morning coffee with Tartar Emetic. So vile was the coffee, that no one noticed the taste, and the Yard shortly took on the aspect of Mount Vesuvius. It was common to wage giant war in Commons, when no one's life was safe, Great days. It was common to be cold in winter and hungry, under...
...Merry England of Charles II for his sword. Hounded by poverty and evil fortune, he stooped at last to lend himself to a discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham in the liver-wing-suffered a terrible beating from that gentleman's lackeys- nursed Sylvia through the plague, then raging-escaped from a dead-cart-and generally conducted himself...
...professors, she found, were sexually predatory. Their wives drank cocktails, were migratory almost every night. The authorities demanded that the faculty?presumably in its soberer moments?confine itself to research laboratories. Even the student body was regarded not as boys and girls to be taught, but as a corpus vile, a collection of human guinea pigs tolerated for experimental purposes. Disillusioned, Joan left the campus, marched to the altar, departed for the fireside. The book is a passionate polemic against present university conditions, and (although the authoress does not realize it) against coeducation. Falsetto in spots, it is always...