Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rise to congratulate the State of Missouri upon possessing a representative so amiable and innocent that, like the three Japanese apes, he sees no evil, he hears no evil and he speaks no evil, and consequently is dully qualified to defend all evil-an innocent abroad, in the intellectual and political world, who finds virtue in every act and with unblushing confidence can defend every infamy...
...recall, moreover, that when the country was startled by the story of Newberry's bribery and corruption, when a shiver of horror went over the land the distinguished Senator from Missouri saw no evil, heard no evil, spoke no evil...
...recall, how he stood then in the defense of Denby, seeing no evil, hearing no evil, thinking no evil, and yet I recall that Denby was forced from office and yielded his resignation...
...weep no more my lady" over "the unquestionably evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles" upon infant minds. But rather join in that nocturnal and nationally criminal chorus of wicked mothers, who love to sing when "quiet hour" comes, that "Old King Cole was a merry ol' soul," with all its accompanying nonsense, even though we know it to be lovely...
Herbert Bayard Swope, vigorous Executive Editor of The New York World, contended the opposite: that printing crime news is a legitimate part of a newspaper's function, that it arouses communities to fight crime, serving as a definite check on evil doing. "Expression," he affirmed, "can never be so bad as suppression...