Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamlen Garland is one of America's best authors. He is, as he says, one who has most suffered by the "best-seller" evil. His work is of the literary non emotional, gentle type. Hence his pessimism. But throughout the country -- and it is America that he especially attacks--there are appearing signs of improvement. Not the least of these in the promise which a popular movement has drawn from the most prominent roadside advertising companies--to stop, gradually, the bill-board method of advertising. The better magazines are tending to print better stories, and to leave the rest...
...members of the P. E. N. wish to do something more immediately useful, however, they can turn their attention toward remedying an evil which has just been exposed by another convention, one in which the P. E. N. should have a very acute interest. The newly launched crusade of the American Booksellers Association against the continued publication in enormous numbers of the "pot-boiler" type of novel will have the enthusiastic support of anyone who was tried to pick out a week-end book while trying to catch the last train out of town. Even though a part...
...promiscuous promoter of Wall Street. On his estate at Asbury Park, N.J., he gives jamborees which scandalize the neighborhood. It is this millionaire's proud boast that he can make any Woman subservient to his lecherous leanings by muffling her good impulses in the mortal coil of evil environment...
...attractive as almost to equal her mistress. And one So-Jin (not to be confused with Slo Gin) who plays the Mongol prince, might well be a scion of the late imperial family of the Celestial Empire, so naturally does he present his role. Suitz Edwards, the "evil associate" of the thief, is a sort of perpetual comic element...
...learn with astonishment that the player-writer in general and I in particular, am regarded by the committee as not only no longer an amateur, but as an "evil influence" in the game. I tender to you my resignation as a member of both [Olympic, Davis Cup] squads. . . I certainly do not consider myself an 'evil influence' in the game, but your report clearly states...