Word: brutality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other items of Methodist activity last week at Atlantic City: ¶ Authorization of a campaign for $1,000,000 between May 15 & 30 to save the missionary, philanthropic and educational services of the church. ¶ A speech by Dr. Halford Edward Luccock of the Yale Divinity School deploring as "brutal and inhuman" the rise of U. S. Steel Corp. stock upon news of a 15% pay cut (see p. 51). Excerpts: "Every day that passes makes it more clear that there is nothing more futile than sending out to the Orient a religion which is not transforming the pagan forces...
...Discussing the nest of acanthus leaves round the fat figure 5 in the corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then...
...Keith theatre that lends itself to the enjoyment of the films projected; Leo Weber plays enthusiastically upon the organ, the latest news events and well-selected short subjects are regular features of the program. This week Mae Clark, the appealing blonde who plunged backward out a window away from brutal newshawks, in "The Front Page," and Lewis Ayres, the sensitive and rather bewildered German boy of "All Quiet on the Western Front," play in "Impatient Maiden." But whether the fundamental cause be economic, or merely a reflection of a drabness peculiar to mass production, the story of "Impatient Maiden...
...proposes to take over the control of the Reich. Strasser, speaking in Stuttgart on Dec. 11, promised that the reordering of the nation will be drastic. "Let no one talk to us of mercy," he said. "No mercy has ever been shown us. We shall be hard, ruthless and brutal in cleaning up the trash of the last twelve years, and we shall not yield an inch." Hitler, on the other hand, has apparently decided that the Nazi rise to power must be altogether gentle and that some sort of modification of policy must precede that accord with the present...
...Suppression of Reparations would be equivalent to brutal repudiation of the Young Plan. . . . Repudiation of Lausanne will destroy all confidence in the possibility of recovery of the country to which treaties and agreements are scraps of paper...