Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well, today, I don't think anyone would take them off my hands. ... I need hardly add that Baldwin's Ltd, is an old family business. . . . "All my life I have consistently refused to invest my money abroad. I have always been, for good or evil, in British industry. It is for that that I am being attacked tonight...
...golf, the tenth with a birdie. After that he was never behind again. Mitchell, quite obviously, was stewing in his own juice. Perspiration poured into his eyes; he had his caddy fetch a towel from the clubhouse, complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might as well play without trousers, he kept his tweed jacket on. Hagen's silk shirt invited breezes. He smiled. At the seventy-first...
...Beyond Evil. For the first time in the memory of this generation's playgoers, a play in a first-class Manhattan theatre was booed. After three acts of laughing and derisive whistles the curtain fell. Great and hollow were the catcalls. For this, the evening was memorable...
...play was not bad enough to warrant such abuse. It was, to be sure, not good enough to warrant more than light laughter and a few long yawns. There have, however, been worse plays these recent seasons, several of them. The outcry at Beyond Evil was simply an indication of the growing indignance of metropolitan audiences at high-flown, false emotion badly acted. There is a sound corrective in this frankness. Actors and authors will hesitate before risking unbridled ridicule...
...this book. It is easier for the teacher, the mediocre, half-educated teacher that is unfortunately the rule in our schools, to give the pupils exercises requiring knowledge of the mathematical side of music, than it is to instill in them a love of the best music. Another great evil to which our attempts at standardization of education has led is that we feel that "to ascend Parnassus one must first tunnel under its base. No more vicious educational fallacy than this was ever uttered": Dr. Davison continues, "the way to right is never through wrong." The way to teach...