Word: viles
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...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...
...McPherson, and the portentous warnings of her mother, those familiar with Sister Aimee's remarkable career predicted that her present difficulties would lead but to greater triumphs. Her history is quite as colorful as those created for her by Sinclair Lewis in Elmer Gantry and Evelyn Waugh in Vile Bodies...
...when in Anglican dignity We sip Oxonian tea. Let none in vile malignity Condemn propriety...
...VILE BODIES-Evelyn Waugh-Cape & Smith...
Savage enemies have tarred Anido with a vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...