Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franciscans who is their city's most potent figure and they will probably say Banker Herbert Fleishhacker because his finger still is in so many pies. Ask who is the greatest potential force and they will say Jack Neylan. As to whether his power is for good or evil, answers will agree only in their superlatives. To New Dealers he is the "most dangerous" enemy in the land. (After the 1932 election he quickly turned on the Brain Trust denouncing its members as an "intellectual awkward squad.") To left-wing Labor he is the "most dangerous" of Conservatives...
...Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein. Henry VIII had enough wives to make four screen stars. Elsa Lanchester is the latest to gain stellar fame in Hollywood, having had the way paved for her by Binnie Barnes (There's Always Tomorrow), Merle Oberon (Folies Bergere) and Wendy Barrie...
Lynching comes in most cases from a mob disillusioned with the methods of normal jurisprudence. Because of the insoluble race problem, it is a particularly flagrant evil in the Southern states. Not until the people of the sub-Mason and Dixon area are sufficiently impressed with the tradition of jurisprudence to take their cases to the court-house instead of to the nearest tree will the scandal come to an end. In the meantime, although causing national embarrassment, Iyaho law is a completely local problem, and the task of checking mob hysters and granting an impartial trial to its citizens...
...that thieves have extended their operations from the theft of umbrellas at Memorial to the larceny of money, gold watches and other valuables from the gymnasium, it is time that the students became aroused to the evil and turned their attention to the detection of the culprits...
...well but seems awkwardly foreign when he writes of the U. S. One story ("Gavrila's Confession") is as good as anything in the Decameron, has the same flavor of good-natured tolerance: a peasant wife, caught misbehaving by her husband, persuades him he is possessed by an evil imagination, makes him go to the priest to confess the whole thing...