Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ONCE Too OFTEN-Whitman Chambers-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Murder involving San Francisco newsmen and beautiful but callous columnist. Highly recommended to admirers of tough-guy mysteries...
...agreed entirely with that officer, then every newspaper, every magazine, every business enterprise, every farm, every professional practice in the United States, whose operator is not a cringing yes-man, can be put at the mercy of Government officials, of any party at any time, if those officials are callous enough or daring enough to ride roughshod over even the most elementary constitutional rights of citizens and their honest enterprises...
...been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over a dark road. It admits that expulsions were carried out on a large scale by 'callous and arbitrary' party functionaries, that the majority of these expulsions were unjustified, and that families were driven from the farms when the fathers had been recruited by State agents to take temporary jobs in industry...
General Chiang was now master of South and Central China but many Kuomintang politicians denounced him as a Fascist or worse. With a characteristic gesture he resigned all his offices and went to Japan. There Chiang, the shrewd, hardheaded, hard-living, callous soldier who had made his way to power, proceeded to court pretty, educated, high-minded Soong Meiling. Her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, today China's greatest financier, informed General Chiang as courteously as possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling...
...Treatment of the injured was characterized by the most callous indifference to human life and suffering. Wounded prisoners of war might have expected and received greater solicitude...