Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much store on birth and money. This circumstance made ordinary Britons grumble and suspect that the Commandos were officered by undemocratic pantywaists. The lists of Commando officers did indeed include many a prewar playboy, many an old, famous and sometimes weary name. Among them were Author Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies, Scoop, Put Out More Flags), who had transferred from the Royal Marines; Sir Roger's son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, who last year died leading a Commando raid on Rommel's headquarters in Libya; Winston's son, Captain Randolph Churchill, who is on duty in the Middle...
They are ghosts indeed, weird and touching ones. They have walked the earth ever since Waugh's famed Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, symbols of a hypercivilized, degenerate England. Put Out More Flags -perhaps their last appearance-is Waugh's peculiar genius at its best. In 300 swift, compact pages he constructs not only the funniest but also the most cruelly searching image to date of England in her latest fateful moment of history...
Last night we could not get any sleep at this leading Central American Hotel. Strange noises, vile language, fancy diving in the swimming pool. It was found later on, that it all came from a member of the staff of the American Legation here at Managua, a member of the staff of Pan American Airways (to whom we owe your splendid Air Express edition) and an English traveler. The night watchman was unable to make gentlemen out of the three of them, and they only quieted down when the percentage of alcohol in their system overpowered them...
...have watched with apprehension the rapidly developing movement in the nation, if not to destroy the Communist Party of America, then to open it for effective action by putting Mr. Earl Browder in durance vile...
Actually he has created a best of all impossible worlds in which everybody is as loony as a bedbug, absurdity is the only plot, and only rationality is vile...