Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Child life is blighted and its future obscured and darkened by broken homes, broken in many instances by the selfish ness and lust of conscienceless and godless parents. This unchecked and growing evil, largely indulged in by people of wealth and position, destroys the sanctity of marriage and gives to it the character of legalized prostitution. A wicked and adulterous generation makes no reckoning of the disasters and misfortunes that inevitably attend its evil and lustful ways...
Condemning the present age as a "wicked and adulterous generation," which "makes no reckoning of the disasters and misfortunes which inevitably attend its evil and lustful ways," the Episcopal Bishops appeal to the nation to return to the "good old days." Like medieval monks whose panorama of life was limited by the four walls of a monastery cell, they despaired of current America as a disillusioned and distracted land...
...would not have died if a flustered bystander had placed the temporary tourniquet above instead of below the wound in his arm. Premier Doumergue pronounced the funeral oration: "Lift up your hearts as we meditate on his life and example. Let us bar the route to the powers of evil that are loosened everywhere and doing the work of death. Remember always that this man who has laid down his life fell at a moment when he was seeking to assure the peace of the world. . . . But if good international work is to be done there must first be good...
...cynical lethargy and push it into the outskirts of the public struggle is a problem to tax the wisdom of a sage. A not entirely hopeless problem, however. Joe College, as we have seen, has passed on, and in his time he, too, must have seemed an irremediable "evil." --The Princetonian...
...Dutch" farming country, around Reading; Lancaster and Bethlehem, passing motorists often goggle at barns with three white circles painted on their sides, wonder what they are for. The three circles, which often have other cabalistic signs inside them, are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch insurance to ward off the evil eye from the cattle within. Like other farming communities, this rich and peaceful land has its dark traditions, its hexerei (witchcraft). Energetic Thames Williamson, author of four dramatic novels about four different sections of the U. S., now publishes what he calls "a last regional novel" about the Pennsylvania Dutch...