Word: vileness
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...opponents, Dr. Robertson, Independent, called back: "Professional character assassins . . . social pariahs who prey like ghouls upon the weaknesses of mankind . . . filthy parasites." Fred Lundin, onetime crony and mentor of Mr. Thompson, now backing Dr. Robertson said: "My only answer to Thompson for calling me a rat and his other vile and untruthful references is that for a period of eight years he lived most of the time at this rat's house and was willing and eager to gnaw at this rat's table...
...shot in the dusk is scarcely news at Tirana-that little, vile, ill-favored capital. But last week the bullet was Italian, the blood Albanian. That was news. The shadowy man who fired the shot made good his escape-perhaps he was not Italian after all-but soon Albanians and Italians were arguing in the streets with shiny steel. Five men lay dead at last, according to report. Two dead were Italian, and all the living knew that Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear...
...what you have says that "Radcliffe girls have no incentive to dress smartly, since Harvard men insist on being the most slovenly and 'un-pressed' college men in the country." This bit of libel received intelligent and succinct comment from two of the Radcliffe seniors who, after perusing the vile sheet, were heard to have the following dialogue...
...meantime Balto, onetime lead dog for Seppala, super-canine transporter of serum to Nome, yawned in durance vile and warm at Los Angeles (TIME, Feb. 28). He may have reflected that every dog has his matinée, wondered who was leading them...
...dead. Servants, at my home, No. 998 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, told newspapermen I was accustomed to sleep late." The Rev. Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson, first Socialist ever to become a Canon of Westminster Abbey: "In Barnet, suburb of London, I said: 'The silk [top] hat is a vicious, vile, ugly symbol of the ungodly Victorian. It is hard, unyielding, uncomfortable and pretentious, with an outside gloss and an inside smell. It is responsible for much of the baldness of the late generation which it typifies.'" . Rudyard Kipling, poet-story-teller: "My wife and I, aged 61, arrived last...