Word: brutal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...achievement so vain. The law of requital is the law of the feud, whereby hate for the enemy is born and fostered in generation after generation, till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only for the equity of barbarians...
...fresher is the material around which Mr. Henderson writes his "Unseen Genius." The village half-wit who reads voraciously, with his doting mother and the stupid, brutal father, on whom he finally bends the horsewhip, is a perennially appearing subject. But here, too, there are bright spots. Mr. Henderson's local color is well painted; his realism (although I draw the line at mention of "Aunt Hitty's old entrails" being "stirred to the depths"--especially after Mr. Gowdy's remark that Jim Gowan's rival had not "a white spot in 'im from the guts up") is undeniably effective...
...scarcely any of their own race, have become lovers. When the play begins they are visiting friends of the young man, a newly-married couple in Chicago. Here they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost disgusting; to him they are fascinatingly alive. She breaks the engagement, but "puts a good face...
...means. Far from succeeding, the treatment the men obtained made them hate everyone and everything, and they left prison with a desire for revenge upon society. They took the first advantage to commit crime once more, and usually landed back again in prison. The punishments used were often so brutal, the absolute silence and the constant surveillance were so trying, that no good result could possibly have come from such methods...
Nothing could be more coldly brutal than to wish a friend doomed to spend Thanksgiving away from a home, a pleasant day, as you speed by him, suitcase in hand. Which proves that nothing can quite take the place of Thanksgiving at home. It is to help relieve the day of its cheerlessness for those who must stay at College that the Thanksgiving evening gathering at Phillips Brooks House was devised. Its essential spirit is informality and agreeable fellowship, for which Thanksgiving time has come to stand. It is a place where men can go to meet their comrades...