Word: vilest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, but their favorite modern playgrounds are in manufacturing cities where sprawling factories belch and whistle, where grimy alleys creep between frame hovels, where workingmen need stimulation Saturday nights. The so-called "better element" becomes excited only on occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio (TIME, July 26). However, there is one town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here on the western fringe...
Michigan. The scale on which things are done in Detroit is becoming legendary. First there was Ford's output; then an 81-story skyscraper; and now the revelations of vice conducted there in the grandest possible manner. Rockefeller Foundation investigators gave Detroit its latest sobriquet, "vilest city in the country," and last week Mayor John W. Smith set about finding out if such distinction was deserved. The Rockefeller men had reported 711 disorderly houses within a mile of Mayor Smith's office and no one was astonished when Mayor Smith's police commissioner, Frank H. Croul, resigned...
...neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they wage their wars out of sight. But last week the public was astounded to find, in a famed tabloid sheet, a reversion to the vilest of tactics of journalism-a gratuitous insult hurled at an honored newspaper builder, a sickly slur cast at a courageous weekly. Don C. Seitz, long business manager of the New York World, was the victim. The Outlook was the insulted weekly. The perpetrator of the offense was a scribbler...