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Word: vilest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News comments as follows on the Princetonian's report of the Yale-Princeton game. "We are sorry that lack of space prevented our furnishing our readers with a reprint of the last Princetonian entire. According to our modest opinion, it is the vilest agglomerate of ridiculous moonshine and silly bragging that even that paper has been capable of, and this statement is made, be it understood, with due respect to its former record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/3/1885 | See Source »

...ignominy; children are born in this pestilential atmosphere, are born and grow up, are asphyxiated, and die; and the filthy wheel of the city's life turns round and round. And whither does the human offal from these noisome streets on the water-front go? What becomes of the vilest of their vile and the most abandoned of their lost ones, when they throw off the burden of their loathsome lives? They go into the water, as a matter of course, and from the water find their way to the Morgue. The lower half of Paris is covered with sores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

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