Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comment: "Growth in itself is not something inherently evil. It is the peculiar genius of the Constitution of the U.S. that it could and did operate as an open-end instrument, bringing more territory and more peoples into federal union. That conception should not now be renounced. . . . All national groups [tend] to attribute self-righteousness to [their present] mood. This tendency, which violates Christ's precepts, creates much ill-will and is itself a major contributing cause...
...agents: "In the four years they've handled me they haven't gotten me so much as an Elks' smoker. NOT ONE DATE! I don't want to know from agents." On men: "I like my men on the monster side. A snarling mouth, evil eye, broken nose . . . thick ears. ... A nervous tic excites me and if with all these things he wore green suits-BANK NIGHT!" On her career: "I've been held over for another week. Broke all records, they tell me. (As if I didn't case the house myself...
Between two fires, Tanner last week appeared to have thrown his whole short bulk in with the Nazis. This was an evil portent for the Social Democratic Party−and for democratic Finland. How matters were going was made clearer at week's end, when President Risto Ryti proposed that elections, due next year, be postponed until 1944 because of the "emergency...
...Boyer finds he's there to stay because of immigration quotas, far from the sparkling matrons of the New York - Miami set he is pursuing from the Riviera. The only way he can crash the land of silk and honey is to marry an American girl, so disguising his evil design with sulfurous similes and purple passion, he dazzles the dewey-eyed teacher from a sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock courtship. As we suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into...
...cannot venture to prophesy when, where and how Great Britain will conquer. But that she will conquer I am sure, because I have more confidence in British toughness than in German energy, and because ultimately I ascribe greater historical weight to the better cause . . . than to the evil and fundamentally fantastic cause of Adolf Hitler...