Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with her. This leads to the price of "the power and the glory": the broken-hearted suicide of Sally with the question, "Why shouldn't you do what you want to once before you die?" This catapults the doomed tycoon on into marriage with the divorcee, into a brutal handling of a bloody strike, into his wife's affair with his son until, finally, full of "power and glory," peeled of self-respect, he dies by his own hand...
...dead city, hushed by the terror of a brutal massacre, was the capital of Cuba last week. Eight years of steadily increased repression had culminated in an ominous, apprehensive silence. The shutters and doors of Havana were bolted, the streets deserted save for soldiers patrolling and police squads riding around in cars. "The Tyrant," paunchy, pock-faced President Gerardo Machado y Morales, had proclaimed "a state of war" in his effort to break his countrymen's general strike against his regime. It had spread throughout the island in all businesses and professions (TIME, Aug. 14). Food was hard...
President Machado has cooperated actively in the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction, but with U. S. tariffs soaring higher and higher against Cuban sugar the business of government in Havana became more and more that of preserving order among an impoverished and rebellious people by methods increasingly brutal. What Cuba needs, if her problems are to be solved realistically, is a new sugar deal from Washington...
...whiskey. He said that guns had been poked in his back, shears snipped threateningly under his ears. "I was treated like a dog. The bed they gave me was infested. They called me every vile and filthy name they could think of." Kidnappee Factor however, for all his brutal treatment, was unwilling to hazard a guess for the authorities as to his captors' identity. He threw a bad scare into many a wealthy Chicago home by announcing: "The gangsters told me that they had a list of men they were going to take and that every one of them...
...private secretary for a Conservative M. P. called to Geneva to serve on some League of Nations committees, electioneered, went for a Christmas holiday on a freighter, and finally discovered the timeless heart of England in the slow-changing countryside. Occasionally, as when he is portraying the asinine and brutal vulgarity of the modern young bloods and contrasting it with the traditional wisdom and courtesy of the old generation, Author Macdonell's good nature breaks down into invective or falters into sentimentality. But most of the time he is content to point a blunt and sudden finger, raise...