Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plentiful. Samuel Insull, recently trapped after a long pursuit by Federal authorities, has now been followed by O. P. van Sweringen as prey to the righteous. Unlike the Insull case, which is virtually over with the exception of refunding losses to the suckers and casting Insull into durance vile, the van Sweringen affair may yet have repercussions which will make the Federal authorities wish they had given the high sign to the bank examiners who detected the alleged window-dressing tactics of the van Sweringens...
...Webb Vallée, actress, daughter of Santa Monica, Calif.'s Police Chief Clarence E. Webb. Fay Webb first sought an injunction to restrain her husband from seeking divorce in Mexico. That was denied. Then she sued for separate maintenance, charging misconduct with three women, vicious temper, vile language, character assassination. Crooner Vallée countered with affidavits reciting spicy telephone chats between Fay Webb and Garfield ("Gary") Leon, adagio dancer. Separated. John Gilbert, 36, film actor; and Virginia Bruce Gilbert, film a tress, his fourth wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack"), 46, blackface comedian...
...QUALITY VILE, ANALYSIS SHOWS...
...head, tied a placard around her neck reading "I have offered myself to a Jew" and pinned the plaits to the placard. Until after midnight the girl was dragged from cabaret to cabaret, forced to stand on the stage of each while she was made the butt of vile abuse. No Briton in any of the cabarets was so foolish as to challenge the Storm Troopers at the time but scores of Britons wrote scorching eye-witness letters next day, thoroughly scared the Municipality of Nuremberg which looks to tourists for revenue...
...never held that man was vile. It was for this very reason that he found himself in disagreement with the teachings of Christianity. He spoke of the original sin as a "theological nightmare." La Rochefoucauld was as much his enemy as Rousseau. For him, man was neither bestial nor divine; he was human; that is, he was torn between a higher will and a lower...