Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddest fact about Beaverbrook as a publisher is the amount of kidding and criticism the Beaver can take from the people who work for him. Evelyn Waugh. a writer of fantastic novels (Decline And Fall, Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust) was once an Evening Standard reporter. He has repeatedly and maliciously caricatured Beaverbrook as Lord Monomark or Lord Copper of the Daily Excess...
...that followed the Civil War, and sets the stage for yellow journalism by quoting Whitelaw Reid as saying in 1879: "There is not a newspaper editor in New York who does not know the fortune awaiting the man who is willing to make a daily paper as disreputable and vile as 150,000 readers would be willing to buy." Hence the "New York World," which Mr. Pulitzer founded "because I want to talk to a nation, not a select committee." And hence the "New York Evening Journal." Mr. Pulitzer had beaten the "Police Gazette" at its own game...
Evelyn Waugh (pronounced Waw) is the Erskine Caldwell of the British upper classes. The feeble-minded baronets that he pictured in Vile Bodies and Decline and Fall peer out upon the great world in contented incomprehension. Although they are not as hungry as Caldwell's Tobacco Roaders, they have the same weary way of repeating themselves, the same facility in wrecking automobiles, the same batlike blinking bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim...
When the English publishers of To beg I am ashamed sent advance copies to columnists of the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, they got an unpleasant surprise: before the book was released both papers appeared with quaint English headlines, such as "A Vile Book," "A Disgraceful Book," with vague stories about its sensationalism, forced its withdrawal...
...whose eyes a vile person is contemned: but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth...