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Word: brutally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Toward the end Author Costain tries to liven things up a bit. Félicité is dragged by her ankles, with her pretty thighs exposed, by her brutal nobleman husband whom she has been forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Wait | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Boston Garden is a modern Colossueum. Under its blinding are lights, the best hockey players of the world engage in brutal, high-speed, modified mayhem. The incredible pace of pro hockey puts the amateur college game in the unfortunate position of a poor relation...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...French Foreign Office spokesman blasted Law 75 as a fait accompli and "a brutal rebuff." Foreign Minister Schuman, who has much more understanding of the Anglo-U.S. position than most Frenchmen have, called in the British and U.S. ambassadors, handed them a protest. In Washington, French Ambassador Henri Bonnet protested to Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. The French got a promise that the Clay-Robertson action would be immediately reviewed by Washington and London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Brutal Rebuff | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Unfortunately, however, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, have chosen to alter the usual happy reconciliation of the two lovers to parallel the ballet-plot. The result is a wrenching, brutal, and totally unnecessary tragic ending to a story that contains no other tragic elements...

Author: By George A. Leiper., | Title: The Red Shoes | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

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