Word: centredness
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"Skunk Meat." Had it not been for Planter Greene's timely intervention, Millhand Jones might have been the first person to be lynched in the U. S. in 1938. There were eight lynchings in 1937, 13 in 1936. There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete...
But unlike Babbitt, Fred Cornplow is harassed by two extraordinarily rude, extravagant, self-centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is...
Safe from possible front line duty to attend the prisoner as his lawyer was Lieutenant the Marques del Merito, a grandee of Spain, whose wife is a daughter of the Tin-King Bolivian Minister to Paris. Socialite Captain Espinosa acted as prosecutor. As judges, a Colonel Frederico Acosta and four...
For the greater glory of the Lord and as a means of relieving unemployment. Jean Cardinal Verdier, benign grey Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris, has for some years pursued a vast churchbuilding program, at one time scheduling no fewer than 100 houses of God for construction over a period of...
Mansell was no revolutionist, but a bewildered weakling with a streak of artistic feeling. He learned his first lesson when two convicts got into a fight about him, quickly accepted the prison social distinction between "mugs" and "right." The mugs included perverts, morons, members of the choir; the others don...