Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Years ago I debated this problem with Count Tolstoy," he began. "I maintained to Tolstoy that one must be allowed to defend himself. He said: 'No. We should not resist evil, men. If another Genghis Khan should come along and we defend ourselves, we would only anger him and more of us would become his victims. If we did not resist, he would kill a few, but soon desist...
...some beverages to provide funds to effect items three and four. The Crimson knows that it cannot get a million undergraduates to endorse this plan; but it wants above all else to unite an enormously powerful public opinion behind some definite scheme for the remedy of an existing evil...
...publications in practically all American colleges bear witness to an interest in other problems of national and world significance. If in the face of these facts Dr. Meiklejohn still insists on the indifference of the students, he will run the risk of becoming a male Cassandra, prophet only of evil...
Item 5. Places the burden of federal enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment upon people who drink beverages which are not necessaries, but are luxuries. If alcoholic liquor in itself is an evil, it makes the traffic pay for its own eradication...
Gold's parents came from Rumania to a Manhattan East Side tenement in Chrystie Street. They were orthodox Jews, decent, kindly people, believed in dybbuks (evil spirits). Manhattan tenement life shocked their kindliness and decency, did not shake their faith in evil spirits. Chrystie Street was in the red-light district, under the protection of Tammany Hall. Mike Gold never forgot his fifth birthday, for that night two gunmen shot it out in the back yard...