Word: vilest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tramp Abroad he calls this nude "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses. ... It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...
Anyway, the front cover of your issue of March 25 comes forth with a swell-looking picture of America's No. 1 Butcher Boy. and practically all of pp. 15, 16, 17 and 18 is devoted to America's part in the World's Vilest Business...
...think of no other at the moment. My question startled him, and his mouth fell open, increasing the horror of his face, the dirty beard, the haunted eyes, the filth, and the very long lower teeth. I felt great love for him, even though he was ugly with the vilest ugliness of man, ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno...
...Denver's rococo Brown Palace Hotel. Part of his speech, as reported by the News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully thwarting the Governor's chances of renomination. Mr. Walker's sentences bristled with epithets reminiscent of Denver's newspaper wars: "vulture," "rattlesnake," "vilest man who . . .", "public enemy," "slimy serpent," "contemptible dog of Champa Street," "foulest, dirtiest, vilest piece of newspaper work. . . ." Publisher Bonfils took no action against Chairman Walker. Nor did he-as he would have done a few years ago-loose a withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages...
...gallons of hard liquor are consumed in Kansas annually. Detroit is in the grip of gangsters and crooked politicians. North Dakota consumes immeasurably more hard liquor than before Prohibition. There out of every four farmers one is making bootleg liquor for the other three. Drinking goes on in the vilest places in Minneapolis. There is not a decent speakeasy in the city but there are 3,000 beer flats where girls preside. A young fellow telephones to Clara or Rose that, he is bringing up a friend and she gets a friend. They pull the shades, drink and other things...