Word: vilest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterest self-reproaches, occurring every few months, centre on his love of horse-racing. After winning ?4,000 at Newmarket he broods: "I herd with the vilest and stupidest and most degraded of beings. ..." After an evening with encyclopedic Thomas Babington Macaulay, Greville ranks himself with the worms, compares his mind to "a hurdy-gurdy in the Street" and Macaulay's to "the great Organ at Haarlem...
...London, publishers withdrew the autobiography of a prostitute, To Beg I Am Ashamed, after newspaper columnists, before the book's publication, called it disgraceful, sordid, "the vilest book that has ever left a modern printing press." Smarting, the publishers accused columnists of "a gross breach of privilege" in denouncing a book before it appeared, of exaggerating its sensationalism. Critics, agreeing with the publishers, graded the book honest but dreary...
...rights of the best of men are secure only as the rights of the vilest and most abhorrent are protected...
Orator Howard is credited with having written many a florid passage in the sermons of the late "Billy" Sunday, orated himself like this: "The speakeasy is the most stupendous, titanic, colossal, calamitous, crimson, conscienceless, pitiless and cataclysmic criminal of the ages. It is the vilest of villains, the cruelest of all criminals, the loudest of all liars, the blackest of all blackguards, the most treasonable of all traitors, the most terrible of all tyrants since the world was born." In Rochester alone Reformer Howard delivered 3.500 speeches and sermons, boasted that he accepted pay for but one. With the proceeds...
...from 11-to-7 against the conflict to 11-to-1. The two kingdoms were in dickering contact at Geneva (see p. 17). But in Rome cautious Dictator Mussolini figured on a "possible double cross" by Britain, France or both. Steaming up Italians to fury at sanctions as the "vilest and meanest" of measures, II Duce prepared to meet them after Nov. 18 by suppressing last week all publication of Italian trade and financial statistics, so that League States that wish to chisel on sanctions and trade with Italy anyhow may do so undetected...