Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given his disparagement of Wagner, and has begun to hedge a little in his public statements. "Wagner, a genius . . . yo, yo, a great genius," he conceded airily to a recent interviewer. Earlier he had made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration, that mass of different instruments in unison!" Wagner "suggests a butler who has been created a baron." About...
...hockey game against the World Champion Detroit Red Wings, 3-to-1; in which 40-year-old Ivan ("Ching") Johnson, recently given his unconditional release after eleven years as star defenseman of the New York Rangers, made his debut in an American uniform, showed flashes of his old, brutal form, thrilled a cheering crowd of 12,000; in Manhattan's Madison Square garden...
...Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor boy named Rene, Mother Slogum decided to teach both children a lesson, sent her brutal brother and two sons out to give Rene "a good scare." But even Mother Slogum was frightened when she heard they had castrated...
...gigantic task of making this unnatural mother humanly understandable, is kept from doing so by Gulla Slogum's many crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen...
...corporate state of shipping is just as sorry as the physical, and there is little likelihood of attracting more private capital. Mr. Kennedy could find only nine companies reasonably sure to survive on the new subsidies. And Mr. Kennedy reported: "The brutal truth is that the American Merchant Marine has been living off its fat for the past 15 years; that is, we have been subsisting upon the war-built fleet. . . . Many of our operators built their business on vessels which they secured from the Government at prices as low as $5 a deadweight ton. Who is going to replace...