Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this restraint exerted by the "Board in Control of Student Publications" has not been continued to this one case, or even one paper In 1921 the trenchant exposures of a certain evil and irreverent student were forbidden in all university publications. Later an editor of the "Magazine" was taken to task severely on account of a favorable review of that iniquitous journal, "The Nation." And it is undeniable that the editor of the "Gargoyle" was threatened with expulsion if he continued to print jokes on prohibition or co-eds,--which seems to be the one really judicious bit of censorship...
...story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Emphasis is placed less on the romantic phase of the situation and more on the mental struggle of Dr. Jekyll than in the former dramatization. It is maintained that Stevenson's chief object was to emphasize the moral effect of the habit of evil on a character normally good...
...effectiveness of a national divorce law such as Senator Capper proposes is limited, because it can apply to only one nation. Divorce laws are rapidly becoming a source of international evil...
...century and a half has not been sufficient to answer this academic question. Last week at New Haven, that baptismal font of good plays and evil, the revived "Beggar's Opera" came for a "one-night stand" after winning London for three years, and the whole of this country during an extensive tour. But New Haven, accustomed to passing independent judgment, was inclined to be inhospitable. Professor John Million Berdan, of Yale and Early Tudor fame, took the double role of Burke and Boswell, calling the Play banal and immoral. A good citizeness of the town, alarmed by these aspersions...
...subject of the French occupation of the Ruhr, the impression he left was that it was an act of military aggression on the part of France, and that France was wholly responsible for any evil results that might follow. It is, however, perfectly obvious, to any one who thinks clearly, that if England had not deserted her ally on the question of reparations, France would not have needed to try to collect her debt in this way. By this act of perfidy, Germany was encouraged to believe that, by holding out, she could escape her just debt. This left nothing...