Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over half a century Cain's Transfer Co., Inc. has hauled scenery from darkened Manhattan theatres to its maw of a warehouse. For almost as long, "Gone to Cain's" has been a brutal euphemism for a flop. Last week the famous graveyard was itself interred...
...Vienna there was, however, a quiet understanding which served as a kind of life insurance for Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg: anti-Nazi laws would not be too strictly enforced so long as Nazis would not foment any more such plots as that which succeeded four years ago in the brutal murder of Chancellor Dollfuss. Last week Dr. Josef Tavs, the No. 2 Austrian Nazi, could not resist boasting to the correspondent of a Czechoslovak newspaper that he and Captain Josef Leopold, the No. 1 Austrian Nazi, were openly doing Nazi business from an office in the heart of Vienna. When...
...mine, exploits it with a young Eastern assayer, gets rich, falls in love with his partner's wife. Knocking down too many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators into which his wealth lifts...
...personal life as well as in his art, he was essentially masculine, vigorous, almost brutal at times. In Berlin, where by lived all of his life, he became famous for his outspoken tales at polite dinner parties...
Heroes & Beasts of Spain contains nine grim stories comparable in their nihilism and graphic power to Ambrose Bierce's tales of the U. S. Civil War. It is a harsh, unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...