Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen to rise, a pained expression on his face, put on his hat and depart, thereby signifying that the session was at an end. At this moment, several Communists rushed the Nationalist benches and a free fight began, to be ended a half an hour later by the brutal intervention of a dozen lusty sergeants-at-arms, the Chamber's chuckers...
...toleration in the history of mankind. Our chronicle, which far antidates those of any western peoples, is unsullied by the innocent blood of any teacher of gospel, Violence is not our way. Human differences we believe must be removed by humans methods and never by unworthy motives backed by brutal force, idealistic America should not go back to the path of the old European world, but assert her democratic way of cooperation in all endeavors. Young India is proud of America's achievements and fervently looks up to her for inspiration and help in her present struggle against evil that...
...story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...
...many say, the best play of his invention. It is not a gentle evening, this beating with the hammer of tragedy on the rock pile of New England farmlife. It is the kind of thing the spectator will object to on the score that existence cannot possibly be so brutal. A young wife of an old farmer forfeits her claim to beatitude by lusting after the farmer's son. The latter couple have a child which stands between its father and his stony heritage of farmland. He corrodes what little she has left of happiness in recriminations...
...once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour's torture. He hammered the Firpo brisket, he split the Firpo lips; he drew pants, heaves, quantities of gore. New Jersey does not permit decisions. None was needed...