Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldest inhabited city in the world," by order of General Maurice Sarrail, French High Commissioner in Syria. Impartial witnesses placed the human loss at 1,000 lives, the property damage at over $10,000,000. L'Echo de Paris cried, last week: "General Sarrail is a senile, stupid, brutal sadist ... a criminal ... a bloody tyrant!" Meanwhile the delicacy of M. Painleve's position was rendered acute by the fact that M. Herriot, leader of the Radical-Socialists,* declared a few months...
Becoming Perhaps too Brutal...
Whether it was the result of the failure of this 1884 team, or whether there was some foundation in the theory that the game had become too brutal, the following notice appeared in the CRIMSON of the next morning...
...Committee on Athletics, having become convinced that the game of football, as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and spectators, and extremely dangerous, propose to request the Faculty to prohibit the game after the close of the present season...
...Hylan announced that he was "happy." Mr. Hearst ran his picture with that word over it. "Mayor Hylan was the victim of as brutal a bludgeoning as modern politics ever devised. Way back last winter the plans for it were laid in the inner councils of Wall Street." The Mayor let it be known after a conference with Hearst representatives that he would not run on an independent ticket in the coming election?...