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...Emasculation, not only of adults but of boys and babies captured during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing. The survival of atrocious practices, such as cannibalism for magical purposes and bleeding babies for ritualistic functions. The cruelest practices of torture and execution. Among these may be cited a punishment that the French ethnologist and explorer, Marcel Griaule, witnessed in Godjam. An Ethiopian guilty of aggression against a minor ras [chief] was wrapped in muslin strips, dipped in wax and honey and slowly burned as a living torch in the presence...
Zhivkovitch, chief of the royal guard and accused by the Croats of being "the cruelest of Serb oppressors" is regarded as the strong man of Jugoslavia...
...cause of peace has taken a great many hard rights to the chin recently, but the cruelest swipe of all was to have Arthur Henderson, president of the world Disarmament Conference, lose faith in the good will of the nations assembled. For years Uncle Arthur has maintained that universal reduction of arms was within a reasonable stretch of the hand and would undoubtedly be reached by Monday, at the latest on Tuesday. And after each successive defent of his proposals and everybody else's proposals, he would bob up again with encouraging plans for new round-table meetings, finding...
...Shylock are spoken with such sureness and understanding that their greatness is of strike their bargain with Shylock, Mr. Moscovitz very subtly insinuates the true hate and venom of one who has been "spurned as a strange cur". He mingles his fawning and bitterness with laughter of the very cruelest variety. The play remains a dell-part of the character and not mere genius in the poet. In other words, this is Shylock...
...demonstrate to manufacturers that people who enjoy jibes at Fundamentalists, machine politics, President Coolidge and the foes of contraception, are discriminating buyers of pianos, automobiles, perfume and fine plumbing. And in a recent pamphlet designed to attract advertisers to the American Mercury, Mr. Mencken has had his shrewdest and cruelest fling of all at journalism: "The American literati of tomorrow will probably come out of advertising-offices instead of out of newspaper offices as in the past. The advertising writers, in fact, have already gone far ahead of the reporters. They choose their words more carefully; they are better workmen...