Word: vilenesses
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...heap is going a bit far when they pretend to know which particular ant has bitten them"; the mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they think the criminal is one of them and because "a crime which outraged the peo ple in good society was not deserving of their protest." The thread of this dry, dispassionate satire hangs on the question: Will the murderer be caught? He is, but that hardly matters...
Last week, when Fisher, who wants to run for Congress in the Republican primary, reported to the U.S. marshal's office to begin a jail term for contempt, each and every employee was on hand to bid him goodbye as he vanished into durance vile until he changes his mind...
...Happy Time. In Milwaukee, Fred De Vorse Sr., asking a divorce from his wife Phyllis, testified that she had 1) kicked him so hard that she caused a hernia, 2) crashed a shovel into the rear of his car, "bruising" window glass and denting the luggage compartment, 3) used "vile and abusive" language...
...voice in all East Germany has been more bitter in denunciation of the Eisenhower food parcels than obedient Party-liner Hans Hoefs, editor of the Communist Deutschlands Stimme (Voice of Germany). Any East German who accepts the vile "beggar packs" of free U.S. food, wrote Hans, should be severely punished. Last week Communist officials took hungry Hans at his word, fired him for refusing to give up three Eisenhower parcels hidden in his own larder...
...Ethel Rosenberg as a capitalist frame-up, were startled last week when the Worker labeled the Rosenbergs "atom spies." The red-faced editors explained they had lifted the story verbatim from a "capitalist press clipping." Apologized the Worker: "We are deeply sorry that slipshod copy-editing permitted this vile attack on the martyred Rosenbergs to appear in our paper...