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Word: brutalities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a brutal frankness that leaves the country aghast, President Roosevelt demands a Supreme Court, that, regardless of the Constitution, AGREES WITH HIM! . . . "FRANK KNOX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another Crisis | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...obedient and instructed Press," of the "overwhelming vacuity of the national life," of the U. S.-Canadian border: "And always the marvel-to which the Canadians seemed insensible-was that on one side of an imaginary line should be Safety, Law, Honor and Obedience, and on the other, frank brutal decivilization." But Theodore Roosevelt he liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Allah's Name | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...national circuit, WHAS was busy day and night directing local relief workers for miles up and down the river. Frankfort, where 1.500 families took to the hills when the Kentucky river flooded the State capital, was reported to be the scene of the catastrophe's most brutal and piteous event. As the water rose in the Frankfort Reformatory. 2,900 panic-stricken prisoners began fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell & High Water | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Undergraduates who are thinking of a life of crime after they get the returns on their exams could do worse than see the short "You Can't Get Away With It", produced by Universal and J. Edgar Hoover. The brutal details of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which solves ninety-seven per cent of its cases, are laid out in convincing style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

...Covenanters and was much drawn to Clavers' dark good looks, saw him superintending a bloody flogging. That night, when they met at a ball, she publicly insulted him. 'But it was all a terrible mistake. The man she had seen flogged was one of Clavers' own brutal troopers who had been caught torturing Jean's old nurse. In a few hours Jean learned the rights of it, apologized to Clavers as publicly as she had insulted him. By page 120 there seems no further reason to worry about the course of their love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killiecrankie | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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