Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene is laid in a Greenwich Village garret. The prosaic daily, or more appropriately, nightly routine of four young Villagers, male, is jarred by the unconscious arrival of one more Villager, female. She is banged in the head by a brutal escort four stories below (although, to let you into a secret, the irate voices really come from the orchestra). The young men gallantly offer her succor, and abandon their apartment to her for the night when it appears that she is unable to leave...
...race against time must not be lost. It sounds cold-blooded, almost brutal. But who was it that hurried into the locker building the moment practice was closed, ran upstairs to the doctor's room where the boy was lying down being bandaged, put one hand on his shoulder, gently ran his other hand across the boy's wet brow and remarked 'That's not perspiration, son, that's sweat'? Who was it that left a suffering boy with tears of happiness welling in his eyes because he had exonerated himself in the eyes of the man whose good opinion...
...Bewildered Bolshies" are the subject of most of the Conservative placards. These usually show "a brutal Bolshevist with greed in his eye" stretching out for the money of "the good old British voter." The captions are: "It's your money he wants. The Socialists say he can have it. Don't let him vote Socialist" ; "Russia already owes us ?722,- 500,000. Don't vote another ?40,000,000, but vote Unionist [Conservative...
...They declare that the project in the most brutal fashion ignores the inalienable rights of the members of the Catholic religion and the imprescriptable rights of believing parents. They consider it as the shameful breaking of a pledge given by France to the Alsatians and Lorrainers to respect their liberties and their traditions...
...Story. Percy Bysshe Shelley, scion of a rich Whig family, first went to Eton. He was "exceptionally beautiful, with brilliant blue eyes, dark curling hair and a delicate complexion." The brutal Vita Etonica shocked his sensitive mind and he was glad to move on to the freedom of Oxford...