Word: brute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beloved Brute would probably have been beloved eight years ago. At present he is decidedly out of fashion. Played by a new star, Victor McLaglen, he is long on chest expansion and ill-equipped with soul. It was the love of a good woman that finally brought him around. Meanwhile, there is much talk about breaking men with bare hands, several fights, crimson ladies, one-eyed comedians and the good old, sure-fire Western wallop...
...with lessening conviction. Journals have, it appears, largely ceased to be organs of opinion, they have become organs of selling. The superiority of asbestos over concrete shingles must be impressed upon buyers because the high geared industrial mechanism produces a surplus of goods which must be sold by brute advertising. When advertising is relaxed, is during the printers' strike in New York last year, buying falls off immediately, and the slackening of demand is effected throughout industry to the very sources of production...
...current his motto: "Fay ce que voudras." But thinking people are constrained to oppose the new libertinism. Man may, indeed, be an animal, often a superb animal. But isn't he something more? Is it rational to conclude that in spite of his evolution he remains a brute? Emerson said...
...spiritual courage. Humanly speaking, it was folly for David to challenge Goliath. But, with God's blessing, the staff, the scrip, the stone and sling of the shepherd boy, symbolic of spiritual power, prevailed signally over the sword, the spear and the shield of the giant warrior, typical of brute force...
...Brooklyn, a Filipino (Pancho Villa) won a decision from a Welshman (Frankie Ash) and retained the flyweight (116 pound) boxing championship of the world. The brute strength of Villa failed to crush utterly the clever Ash, frail, skinny, anemic "with arms like pipe-stems and legs like reeds." Though Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only...