Word: bestial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exclaimed Le Populaire, newsorgan of the French Socialist Party and Vice Premier Leon Blum who last year became the first Socialist Premier of France and is soon to visit the White House: "It is the conscience of the civilized world which has answered bestial ferocity." Without designating any particular country, his words are sufficiently explicit so that in them may be recognized condemnation of the invasion of Manchuria, the assassination of [Chancellor] Dollfuss [of Austria], the Italian aggression in Ethiopia, the foreign intervention in Spain, Japanese aggression in China, the bombardment of open cities and massacre of working populations...
Until yesterday we didn't think so. But today we do. For the undergraduates, judging by what we've heard, have sunk to a state of bestial oblivion as far as the bard is concerned, and Harvard Hall, despite the English department's effect to fill in the gap, is cold,-bare ruined choirs where late the sweet bird sang...
...called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating than Billy Rose had expected, and it was soon replaced by a "Ziegfeld Milk Bath." Dr. Hamiter took his lions off to Chicago to become part of a vaudeville troupe called Circus de Paris. A 22-year-old chorus girl named Gladys Cote...
Anthropologists have long suspected that in Japan twins are born less frequently than among whites. Confirmation has been difficult because Japanese mothers believe that to bear more than one child at a time is a bestial act, frequently try to hide multiple births by separate registry of offspring, even by infanticide. Investigators Taku Komai and Goro Fukuoka of Kyoto Imperial University pierced this veil of obscurantism, sifted hospital figures and midwives' records, found that Japanese twins are indeed scarce: One pair in 160 births, as against one in 87 among U. S. whites...
...anthropology are the only two fields of knowledge concerned exclusively with human biology. Medicine is much more important to the ordinary man, hence is much more lavishly endowed. "Anthropology," explains Dr. Hooton, "reveals many things which most persons prefer not to know, since it harps upon humble and even bestial origins, regards the present status of our species without approbation and can predict for the man of the future no apotheosis but only a multiplication of psychoses, dental caries, malocclusions and fallen arches, together with a full retention of his aboriginal cussedness...