Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tempestuous pantomime of a French father selling his daughter to a brutal Apache, in which Mistinguett reveals her veritable acting ability, appearing tragic even when she climbs out of a tank (the Seine...
Benito Mussolini insulted Queen Marie of Rumania. The Queen's matchmaking plans received a brutal blow. Rumanian policies looking to an entente with Italy, a concordat with the Vatican, not to mention the marriage of Marie's second son to an Italian Princess, were roughly handled by Mussolini's masterful touch. All the Balkan chancellories are in turmoil...
...play adapted from the Danish of Karen Bramson stresses the point that Virtue, besides being its own reward, is its own weakness. An old, hunchbacked, club-footed professor, who in addition to going blind has about every other deformity of mind and body, saves a lovely girl from a brutal father, and then clutches at the girl. He forces her to marry him, through weakness and pity, and when she tries to elope with the sculptor she loves, the professor chains her to himself with the intangible but unbreakable bonds of gratitude. The strength of the frail proves so crushing...
Scholarship protested; it called football brutal, demanding its abolishment, introduced co-education, thinking, perhaps, that potting parties would supplant athletics...
...taxes were imposed in order to supply wages for thousands of government employees, whose work was to devise new methods of increasing their personal property. Even the soldier who had faced several years of hell on frozen peaks was the object of ridicule, jeers, and often the victim of brutal assaults. A brother of mine, who was an officer in the Italian army at that time, wrote to me from Milan that to wear a uniform on the streets in the daytime was to invite serious trouble, while a similar act at night was intense flirtation with death...