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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series Aftermath | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...before yesterday, it was Louis Amberg, an innocent martyr, if there ever was one, not only in death but throughout his whole adult life. Fifteen times an unjust society had called him into court for homicide, assault with intent to kill, and other such vile offenses. And fifteen times the poor fellow, with his reputation nevertheless ruined, was able easily to prove that he was as innocent as a new born lamb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT ARE ALL THESE KILLINGS WORTH? | 10/25/1935 | See Source »

...were shamelessly sold into slavery by the so-called civilized and Christian Italians to serve as eunuchs in the harems of the Infidels of Northern Africa and Turkey. Following Pope Leo's comparatively recent ban upon the use of castrati in the choirs of the Catholic Church, this vile, inhuman Italian commerce in mutilated boys died. Nevertheless, the indisputable fact that Italians, for centuries, had been engaged in the abominable traffic of emasculating Italian boys, stamps Italians, according to Baron Aloisi's own formula, equally as uncivilized and barbarous as their fellow-Christians, the Ethiopians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 14, 1935 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

During the reign of fat, cunning, democratic King Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse, mean-tempered Englishwoman from the Isle of Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worthless Wanton | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Month ago Mrs. Margaret Clark, member of the school board, joined the crowd which was peeking under the cheesecloth. "Horrible! Vile!" gasped Mrs. Clark. One by one her fellow members trotted into the school, peeked, generally condemned the painting for its ugliness, its nudity or both. Said Chairman Mrs. George Rounsaville: "The work is magnificent . . . but too ghastly for a school building." Last week she announced that her board would ask the artist to tone down his panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Horrible! Vile! | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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