Word: callously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his wife Hilda, 56. Curate Bunting left a note declaring that his son James was in possession of most of the family money, between $15,000 and $20,000. A coroner's jury, formally pronouncing the Buntings suicides, observed that their son had acted "in a very callous manner" in not assisting his parents in their difficulties...
...experiences may tend to fixate infantile behavior. ... If the seducer is a parent, the child becomes doubly preoccupied with problems of family relationship. There is surprisingly little feeling of guilt and anxiety in these children. . . . Where the experience is repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family life. While they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often...
America for the Americans! What meaning can such a shining manifesto have for the callous citizens who too long have listened to the deluding calls of the sirens! Reds are allowed to attack openly such venerable institutions as Wall Street itself, which was good enough for Alexander Hamilton and should be good enough for us. What have our weak, corrupt, immigration authorities to say about the presence in this country of Father Coughlin, the Canadian-born, the arch-alien, un-American Pied Piper, with his wicked song about a central bank? Soviet Russia has a central bank, and Josef Stalin...
...striking fact to be observed is that in such a movement, no matter how frivolous, is expressed the bitterly callous attitude of our generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming war will otherwise deprive the most deserving block of its veterans of the Bonus by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humour are not to be censored. Youth must play...
Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...