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...defense . . . will prove Gebhardt was a cruel, browbeating type of man," declared the Daily News, "and that he was killed as the girl sought to repulse his brutish advances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trial by Reporters | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Brutish Wormwood," (TIME, Sept. 3) brings to mind a story heard in Paris a few years ago. The story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1934 | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...average American, the name Soviet Russia brings a confused impression of endless steppes, brutish peasants, close-massed regiments marching by the tomb of Lenin, and occasional academic debates on the five-year plan. In-"Out of Chaos," Ilya Ehrenbourg has added to this impression, brought in to clearer focus, and produced an interesting tabloid view of both the human and production side of the Russia of the present...

Author: By M. K. R., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

...cardinal rights of a citizen of the United States and if a group of citizens has secured the right to assemble and parade, there is not reason why brawny guardians of the law should interfere. Furthermore, if interference is deemed necessary, there are two ways of doing it. The brutish tactics of the Hub policemen yesterday represents one way, but there is a more sensible one, of which the Boston bluecoats seemed unaware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON'S FINEST | 5/18/1934 | See Source »

...recent "incidents" in Manchukuo have stirred up editorial writers into a lather of anticipation, as war, "short, brutish, and nasty," is predicted as the imminent outcome of the Japanese-Russian dispute. (The New York Times, on the other hand, has felt called upon to reverse without warning its views of Soviet diplomacy, now terming it shamefully weak and spineless where before they thought it insidious plotting against the safety of the civilized world; the Times has gone so far as actually to bewail the lack of supporting connection between the Kremlin and the Third International). Other papers, however, have asserted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/13/1933 | See Source »

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