Word: vilest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge- Stone, summing up the case, characterized the book as the most vicious piece of literature he ever read in his life and the vilest he ever saw in his 25 years on the bench...
...Stuff" v. Vodka Sirs: Anent statement of George Reeves-Smith, Esq. (TIME, April 22), that "the vilest, most scorch ing, absolutely abominable drink I can call to mind, is Russian vodka." Let our British friend depart briefly from the legal U. S. mineral water which he intends to stick to strictly for a fortnight, keeping a tumblerful within reach, and try some of our plentiful, genuine pre-War "stuff." VORIS D. SEAMAN Chicago...
...during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds out the most amazing threats of devastation and disaster which will come to the nation if the Pope wins control of the Government . . .and contains the most vicious and lurid attacks on the Governor, assailing him in the vilest language...
...fecund cycle bounded by Six Points: 1) "Immutable maintainance of the present level of stabilization (i lira equals $.0526)." 2) Total curtailment of foreign borrowing by the State, plus drastic censorship of private Italian loan flotations abroad. 3) Stern coercion of Italian tax evaders and delinquents, "who are the vilest leeches sucking the blood of human society." 4) "Resolute avoidance of any increase in taxation." 5) "Introduction of the most crystalline simplicity and clarity in all state accounts, so that each citizen, without the aid of metaphysics of accounting or computing machines, can read them and understand them." 6) "Vigilant...
...Again he procured elephants and other African fauna, narrowly escaping with his life when a bull elephant gored him and kneeled on his chest and head (his wife rescued him, mulilated); when, his rifle empty, he had to throttle a wounded 80-pound leopard; when he contracted "Black Water," vilest of tropic fevers. Gorillas were the subject of his latest studies, pursued in the gorilla sanctuary he had been instrumental in having set aside by Belgium. He embarked on his last trip last spring with George ("Kodak") Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera maker, who was financing his work...