Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They may have had no more to do with each other than 'the man in the moon' but we feel bound to say that Ramsay MacDonald and Sir Alexander Grant, with their Scottish upbringing should have remembered the sagacious apostolic injunction to avoid even the appearance of evil...
General advice to the new men was the theme of the speeches. Dr. Perry emphasized the evil of procrastination, the importance of the intellectual side of college life, and the importance of getting a religious education. "The first thing you must get if you're going to get anything out of college is the intellectual reaction you receive from hard work," Dr. Perry said. "The most essential thing for you is to start in at once and not put off until the critical time has passed. You all think that from now until mid-years you will do well...
...Everest. Yet when Signor Barolo returned he gave out these remarks to the press: "I went carefully and slowly, testing the ground with my stick at each step and I managed, at last, to get down the steep sides of the crater. My progress was also hampered by evil-smelling volcanic gases, which came up wherever there was a small fissure in the ground. At the bottom of the crater, I walked for a few yards quite easily upon what I discovered to be a mass of hardened snow, protected by a thick strata of ashes...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK-The Provincetown Players have rolled the Theatre back 80 years to present in serious and, therefore, burlesque revival a tale of evil Counts, innocent maids, forging financiers...
...other books, of Persian Pearls, a book of essays; Farmington, a novel depicting life in a small Ohio town, highly praised at the time of its publication by such critics as the late William Marion Reedy and recently reprinted by Huebsch; Crime, Its Cause and Treatment, and Resist Not Evil. He has also contributed many articles to magazines and reviews, and the current American Mercury has an article by him entitled The Ordeal of Prohibition, designed to show that it has been the practice of civilized countries to fail to enforce, rather than to repeal, unwise and unpopular laws...