Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Lane and Company. It has been a busy week-end with the famous London house. Its latest offering, a chatty biting, indiscreet book called, with due propriety, "The Whispering Gallery" was hailed as the seasons hit in England. Everyone who mattered was reading it because it contained delightfully brutal comments on everyone else who mattered. The throbbing question then arose--who wrote it? John Lane and Company announced that only one person knew--the director of the firm, and that he was, of course, bound to secrecy. He would say--in fact he did say--that the writer...
...judge from the cries of the politicos the Filipinos are downtrodden and all but enslaved by the brutal and rapacious Uncle Sam. The facts are that they enjoy as much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the Philippines are Americans. These have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned...
...tried to drag Buermeyer into the bathtub to revive him. He chafed him, fanned him, groaned his name. Then he telephoned for an ambulance, gave himself up to the police, told the story, in detail too brutal to print. Sober at tail too brutal to print. Sober, he said: "I must have been crazed...
...with a talent for headlong talespinning that must have come to him from across the Bosporus. He writes out of the life he has led, chiefly here around one Stavro sly peddler of drink at fairs, upon whose sensitive nature, to the point of perversion, have been wreaked the brutal inheritance of an ancient jumble of hot, primitive races Stavro relates the tragedy of his marriage, thwarted by impotence; the kidnaping of his madcap sister Kyra by a Turkish harem procurer; some of his wanderings from the Danube to Damascus, in search of love and friendship They are not stories...
...took comfort from the fact that, though loud, Mr. Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he was most useful, hymning England's dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man's Burden, making Empire-Building a very real, brutal, glorious thing for schoolboys to dream about. As late as last spring, during the coal strike, his first cousin, Premier Stanley Baldwin,* thought it worth while to rehearse softie of the oldtime Kipling duty-booming in the Government's emergency newssheet (TIME...