Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grace and humor Albert Frederick, Duke of York, second son of Their Majesties, solved the problem of what to say to the mechanical folk of Britain's Industrial Welfare Association, as follows: "My industrial visits do not always have the best results. I seem sometimes to place an evil spell on any machines in which I would take a special interest. They may break down or stop. Once, to my surprise and dismay, I was dropped in a lift; another time a supposedly foolproof stamping machine ejected 40 unstamped letters for my benefit. The threads of looms at times...
...with anti-war feeling. The veterans had it. Public-spirited citizens had it. Women's clubs had it. Priests and preachers had it. Men might scratch their heads over the rights and wrongs of social or economic questions but it took no second thought to agree that War was Evil. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for limitation of naval armaments in 1922. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for Secretary of State Kellogg's multilateral treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. Enthusiastically the U. S. plumped for embargoes on arms shipments to China, to Bolivia, to Paraguay...
...views of the "voice of experience" shows perhaps too much experienced rhetorical mysticism to grapple with the realistic condition to which we drew attention. Far from criticizing the devotion and efficiency of Mr. Bingham and the staff of the H.A.A., we begged only to draw public attention toward an evil mentioned by us as "Big Stick Control...
...leading educators of the more prominent institutions. Mr. Valentine's capable article is phrased carefully in a series of rhetorical questions while Professor Friedrich has not hesitated to state the problem succinctly in a recent Atlantic Monthly as follows, "A doctor must spend months on end bent over an evil-smelling carcass, dissecting it with his own hands" while a lawyer has to master the "dry-as-dust mass of legal lore which may be and probably is utterly repellent to his active, dramatic nature. Unless he possesses self-discipline, and a good measure of it, he cannot...
...Those evil windows loved of none...