Word: calloused
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...Hershey's statement, "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." This was "fantastic," said Candidate Roosevelt; he had read it with "amazement." The War Department had announced a plan for speedy demobilization. "This callous and brazen falsehood was, of course, a very simple thing . . . an effort to stimulate fear among American mothers, wives and sweethearts...
...good are U.S. mental hospitals? They are not as bad as the 18th Century Bedlams, which were a cross between a filthy jail and a callous human zoo; but they are nowhere near up to the humane and efficient standard of U.S. hospitals proper. This was the gist of a report made last week by a New York State Commission...
...often the insane are neglected, friendless, locked out of the way and forgotten. The people who care for them are often callous and incompetent and make sick minds worse...
Roundy dubs himself "the old lawn-mower pusher." He is as much a town character as a columnist, knows everybody, gripes at tavern prices, poses as a callous cynic while collecting hundreds of dollars for crippled children's camps and other charities. His style is not a pose. He talks that way, dictates his column...
Ever since "Col. D. Streamer" (Harry Graham) wrote this callous little quatrain (Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes') in 1901, British poetasters have amused themselves by writing variations on the theme. Recently London's weekly Time & Tide offered prizes for the best wartime ruthless rhyme. Three of the six prizewinners...