Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes swollen from their tape bandages. He tottered into the station house and asked for whiskey. He said that guns had been poked in his back, shears snipped threateningly under his ears. "I was treated like a dog. The bed they gave me was infested. They called me every vile and filthy name they could think of." Kidnappee Factor however, for all his brutal treatment, was unwilling to hazard a guess for the authorities as to his captors' identity. He threw a bad scare into many a wealthy Chicago home by announcing: "The gangsters told me that they...
...considered Andre worthy of death, had they seen a filthy cartoon that he had adorned the front page of his Daily Paper. El Dia, with a few days before he was shot: which issue the Government suppressed, and very few saw or even heard of this evidence of his vile imaginations...
...students and the A. B. C. have set themselves to clean up Cuba of its many curses: such as lottery, universal gambling, brothels and dives, vile publications as Politico Comica and La Scinana, graft, politics that exploit Cuba for personal gain, regardless of public advantage. And they seek a system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess...
...circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best in the comparative bluntness of prose. And in modern poetry, which has come far from Robbie Burns, gutlessness...
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...