Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception...
...JOURNEY to the End of the Night," which has been a literary sensation throughout France, is an adventure story of one Bardamn, an impressionable young French doctor. Bardamn is caught in the flood tide of the war and when the evil game of killing is ended, finds himself part of the "lost generation," stranded in the mire of post-war degeneration...
...whose carryings-on with "Peaches" Heenan Browning made front page news in 1927. Before Depression Browning, King, whose stock is privately owned, had 31 stores and five Brownings, paid sizeable annual dividends. By last year there were 24 stores and two Brownings but the old firm had fallen upon evil days. Last week Browning, King toppled into bankruptcy...
...Your membership largely represents those interests which, from motives of self-interest as well as good citizenship, have a leading role to play. ... It is time to stop crying 'wolf and to cooperate in working for recovery and for the continued elimination of evil conditions of the past...
Even better evidence that the Chicagoans have not got the courage of their convictions on the question of good and evil is the sympathetic atmosphere which surrounds the "boy who made good." The crowd which has long clamored for the return and quick imprisonment of its runaway utilities magnate, has failed to re-elect the State's attorney who brought him back. There was certainly no triumphal return, with Samuel Insull dragging behind a chariot, nor was there an angry crowd at the station or the jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive...