Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revert. As to the idea that it is "guts, not form" which we want, let me suggest that it is speed which we want-a thing to be obtained only by the combination of "form" and "guts". "Form" without "guts" is pretty, but foolish. "Guts" without "form" is brutal stupidity, the sort of thing that makes the last mile utterly impossible; it is an anachronism-"cave-man stuff" is a bit out of date in rowing...
FLORIDA: The investigation of the Florida peonage system whereby convict laborers are flogged by " whipping-bosses " has revealed incidents fully as brutal and gruesome as any of the tortures employed during the Middle Ages. The press is unanimous in its agreement that it is one of the darkest blots on civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit to the sheriff sending them there, whereby flogging of prisoners to death is a common occurrence, has been speedily condemned by the Florida legislature, which voted 31 to 1 to abolish...
...make threats. We leave that to him. But freedom will come, even into the last fastness of reaction. Neither Mr. Vauclain, Mr. Gary, nor any other autocrat can forever drive slaves on a tyrant's terms in the Republic of the United States. He does poorly to fling his brutal taunt into the faces of American manhood. The late George Baer once said that captains of industry were God's trustees. General Bell once said: ' To hell with the Constitution.' Mr. Vauclain seems to have combined their formulas...
...carries her down a waterfall-a thrilling scene. At the bottom, they find that the boats they had expected to find have been taken. He leaves her to get others. A storm comes up. She feels that she is committing an error, and crawls back. The native kills a brutal trader to whom her father was going to marry her, and she tells him that she cannot go with him. He kills himself. The whole story is told without heroics, without sentimentality, with a rich and mysterious beauty. It is a masterpiece. Safety Last. Harold Lloyd...
...before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they are people in a dream, creatures of imagination as much as Hamlet, Pickwick, Lear. If the light were turned out there would remain only burgomasters, doctors, old women paring their nails, painted with marvelous, sometimes brutal, truthfulness to actual life in 17th century Holland. In the panel recently discovered, which represents the marriage of Alexander the Great with Roxane, five sources of light are introduced- the greatest number ever observed in a single picture. Rays of evening sun from an invisible window to the left fall...