Word: vitriol
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Father Coughlin's bitterest vitriol was reserved for Edward Douglas Stair, former president of Detroit Bankers Co., one of the two holding companies-"Detroit Looters' Co." to Father Coughlin. Also publisher of the Free Press, Mr. Stair directs a running editorial barrage against Father Coughlin. "Insull was a piker to E. D. Stair," yelled the priest of the Shrine of the Little Flower, who in October will resume his Sunday broadcasts over 27 stations, and who plans to expand his "Children's Hour" to seven stations...
...education and its brothers-in-crime, The Federation of Churches, the League of Nations, Soviet Russia, Albert Einstein, and the Harvard Liberal Club. From the excerpts, relating to the American College, from his book, T. N. T., and quoted elsewere in these columns, it is possible to sample the vitriol with which Mr. Hadley would fortify every good American...
...News agencies turned toward Albi last week. Paris reporters trod its cobbled streets to attend and report the trial of Albi's famed "acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week, the hideous burns on her face half-hidden by a bandage. "You thought that you would blind me!" she cried pointing an accusing finger...
...witnesses, making the eminent senators laugh; with President Benjamin Harrison's son and grandson present, the one in the Senate, the other as one of the prosecutors from the House-and with the gadfly who brought it all to pass, Editor Dale of the Post-Democrat, telephoning fresh vitriol to his wife from his Ohio sanctuary...
...fall of 1914, when the Germans were goose-stepping across Belgium in seven-league boots. General Von Suttwitz ordered Max arrested. It was done. Next day. Max was at Namur. A few days later, at Glatz-interned. His townsfolk posted placards-they warned the Germans that they had gasoline, vitriol, butcher knives, and would use them if Max were injured. After languishing four years in a German camp, Max returned. Today, he leads the Liberals in the Chamber of Deputies. He looked upon the Van de Vyvere kitten Cabinet and decided it should not live...