Word: viles
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Divorced. Edith Day, 30, comedienne, from Patrick Somerset, 29, English actor, by default, in Minneapolis, though she was in London, he in Hollywood, Calif. They first appeared together in 1920 in the English production of Irene. She charged that he was "continually drunk," used "vile and indecent" language, struck...
...initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York, and remains the most famed...
...morals that passing fancy chooses to decry. And now its potentialities for destroying the fruitful years of the flower of American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne flows freely and time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak character to procure liquor more...
...rebuked with measured scorn and thoroughly dressed down by the Speaker, for "the gross indignity offered to Parliament and the vile discourtesy done to the House of Lords" (TIME, July 12), by Laborite M. P.'s who cat-called and booed among themselves while a message from the King was read...
...Smyrna, once called "The Golden," now recovering slowly from a vile decay, 13 men wrote busily last week each his last will and testament...