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Word: brutality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another report has it that he wished to make King Boris abdicate so that he could become King of Bulgaria. The greatest value of these yarns, as they probably are, is that they faithfully portray the character of the man. He was in the habit of speaking with almost brutal directness, i. e., his warning to King Ferdinand in September, 1915: " If you plunge this country and its peace-loving people into an unnecessary war, Sir," he said, " you will pay for it with your head and your throne. The blood of the people will be upon your hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Ruffled Waters | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...Mille brothers third, and then come the Westerns. Serials, tragedies and stories " with sad endings " are out of favor with both sexes. And they just hate, or at least they say they do, the custard pie varieties of comedy, over-mushy yarns and films that are brutal or untrue to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Boys and Girls | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady plays an engaging foster mother, taking the orphaned Alexander to find his father in Arizona. They encounter instead a " brutal" bootlegger in chaps ? whom the little child leads into a vale of righteous happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...March 29 The World published the first of its stories telling how Martin Talbert, a, North Dakota farm boy, died in a Florida convict camp after a brutal flogging by the whipping boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unbecoming Advertisement | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady plays an engaging foster mother, taking the orphaned Alexander to find his father in Arizona. They encounter instead a "brutal" bootlegger in chaps?whom the little child leads into a vale of righteous happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 19, 1923 | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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