Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going below, Captain Aubert found his passengers picking themselves up, putting themselves to rights, after being tumbled about for three minutes as in a brutal storm. Fortunately, the only damage was minor bruises, sprains and a scratch in the left hand of right-handed Jean Borotra, Davis Cup tennis man from France...
...struggle between the Wets and the Drys is brutal beyond words. It is the women who give the Drys their ridiculous strength. 'Not caught, not guilty,' say the poachers. That is life in America. By the millions they live as poachers and contrabanders in an atmosphere infected with puritanism, professional spies and amateur informers...
...head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds it in faith. In the course of his anguished gropings he commits a brutal murder, falls in love with a gentle girl. Phoenix Film Co. of Germany has telescoped the story onto the screen with sincerity enough to preserve its hulk but without art enough to point its outlines. Ten Modern Commandments (Esther Ralston). Among modern young women, it appears, the ten modern commandments...
...That rodeos are "brutal, demoralizing"; that they are "commercialized cruelty," the worst features of which are overadvertised to attract attendance from "mentalities below the average"?these accusations were put before President Coolidge by the Chicago Anti-Rodeo League. The League respectfully, earnestly requested the President not to attend the Tri-State Rodeo at Bellefourche...
Because Italy holds a virtual protectorate over Albania, the note of Dictator Zogu received the respect appropriate to a communication undoubtedly approved if not ordered written by Italian Dictator Mussolini. It declared that the national honor of Albania had been insulted by "brutal and unconciliatory demands" made upon Albania by Jugoslavia, recently, to obtain the release of a Jugoslav spy arrested and jailed in Albania...