Word: viles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyers and his mother, swore they had told the Mirror nothing. The prison psychiatrist was quoted as saying that Fiorenza told him: "I never gave an interview to anybody from a paper." Thundered the Post: "How many prospective veniremen for the Fiorenza trial have absorbed the Mirror's vile insinuations that Mrs. Titterton led Fiorenza on; that she encouraged him to spend time with her while she probed for literary material; that she permitted him to visit her several times; that she forgave him for an attempted attack, told no one about it, and permitted him to enter...
Reginald Heber, author of From Greenland's Icy Mountains, thought savages vile; Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought them noble. Modern anthropologists make finer distinctions, think them a little of both. Madelon Lulofs, who has seen, smelt and heard many a noble-vile Javanese, would like to side with Rousseau but her conscience will not let her. Her story of how a potentially noble savage was made into an ignoble coolie would be considered too sentimental by empire-builders, too tolerant by professional friends-of-the-oppressed. To her Javanese hero it would doubtless not be comprehensible...
INNOCENT SUMMER-Frances Frost-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Poet Frost's first novel lavishly embroiders the now familiar theme that in the countryside every prospect pleases and only man is vile. THE WHOLE WORLD & COMPANY-Gretchen Green-John Day-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). A scrapbook autobiography by the peripatetic daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman...
...with casual visitors, rotting away their characters, were the debtors' prisons of England a century ago. Had not Charles Dickens exposed their evils (David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, etc.), had not the civilized world abolished imprisonment for debt, most citizens of the U. S. might have languished in durance vile during the years of Depression...
...Chicago Cubs, who said that he had abused, humiliated and demoralized them (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, in Chicago, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced the penalties for such misbehavior: $200 fines against Umpire Moriarty and Baseballers Elwood English, Bill Herman, and Bill Jurges for "vile, unprintable language"; a $200 fine against Cubs' Manager Charles Grimm, for remaining on the field after Umpire Moriarty had ordered...