Word: vilenesses
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KHRUSHCHEV began his denunciation of Stalin by revealing two suppressed letters. One was written by Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, to Lev Kamenev, chief of the Politburo: "I beg of you to protect me from rude interference with my private life and from vile invectives and threats [by Stalin]." Lenin wrote direct to Stalin: "You permitted yourself a rude summons of my wife to the telephone and a rude reprimand of her ... I have no intention to forget so easily that which is being done against me ... I ask you therefore that you weigh carefully whether you are agreeable...
...lint, off the top of Milt's mind. Milt's mind, it is true, often seems a mighty dull place to spend 310 pages, but even the dullness has its fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey how awful it is to be Milt, how vile it is to run from life like a frightened pig, to crush everything in the path, and in the end (as a pig's sharp trotters sometimes will) to slash your own throat...
...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...
...Vile & Rue. As a sideline. Sammy began lending money to reporters, later went into it fulltime, despite the fact that borrowers were "always casting their vile and rue on me." His rate was usually 5% a week, but it multiplied when a newsman borrowed on the day before payday; he thought that the heavy demand at that time justified a higher return...
...have torn up a letter in which he pledged her a life income of ?200, and she has only soft words for him in her Memoirs. After 15 years, she wrote her friend Lord Byron: "Don't despise me; nothing Lord Ponsonby has dearly loved can be vile or destitute of merit...