Word: viles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day was Friday, the Moslem sabbath. To a mosque jammed with zealots the priest raged against "accursed Christians and the adoption of their vile habits by some Persian women." With the tirade at its height, suddenly the congregation was startled by the ring of spurs on the stone mosque floor...
...former member of the French Foreign Legion has remarked, "predominantly it is composed of men of violence, bums, morons of vile habits and booty-hunting louts." But La Légion Etrangère has, with great courage and rigid discipline, conquered a great part of the French Colonial Empire, second largest in the world. Last week the unsavory but effective Legion celebrated its 100th Anniversary-or rather...
...Flaying racketeering, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Klein declared: "A monstrous growth, a vile, malignant para site rising from the slime of criminal greed ! . . . This evil must be rooted out if American business is to progress vigorously again...
...them. In 1890, then 24, he went to Midland, bought with his partner a brine-well. He formed Midland Chemical Co., paid his board bill with stock. Midlanders viewed him with distrust and in 1900 brought suit charging that the Dow plants depreciated property, filled the town with vile and injurious odors. But by then Dow Chemical had been formed to take over Midland Chemical and another company Dr. Dow had formed; was well able to defend itself. Since 1900, Midlanders have changed their attitude toward Dow Chemical Co. and the Dow family. The company's plant stretches over...
...Fascist Government is not passive in the face of the present difficult situation, as vile anti-Fascist scandalmongers say. The government has its hand on the pulse of the nation and hears distress signals from whatever source they come. But not all can be saved and some indeed deserve to go to the bottom. The majority of the latter belong to the category-enormously increased during and after the War-of business improvisers, men more reckless than enterprising, acrobats of industry and finance, men supremely encyclopedic in their initiatives...