Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives of the United States, Because of the impossibility of supporting a suitable establishment, as advances in position brought added social responsibility and emoluments not in proportion to the increasing requisite expenditures, this country has lost many able diplomats. However, steps are being taken to mitigate the present evil and to bring about circumstances in which the diplomat with wealth is not preferred to the servant with manifest ability in appointments to the more important posts...
...history of man is pock marked by war. During these periods of human strife much that is valiant and all that is evil in man is flaunted before the public. Reputations rise and fall as the years go on, but they are reputations built upon a blunder or a heroic gesture. An era of peace follows in which the nations analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen...
...mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion, an innocent-looking stone from a tomb was included in the platform. Then things began to happen-which resulted in a series of untoward occurrences. . . . There have been several cases of derailment, suicide, mysterious deaths . . . unaccountable accidents. The place was haunted...
...Pleas Court at Akron quashed his indictment on the ground that the syndicalism statute was unconstitutional. His reason: it violated the guarantees of free speech. Conceding the State's right to protect itself against subversive doctrines, Judge Wanamaker ruled: "Mere talk, in and of itself alone, unattendant with evil consequences that might reasonably be expected to flow there from, cannot be made by law a crime in Ohio...
...excellent caviar. Beyond a doubt all the knives, forks and spoons on the table had been seized during the Russian Revolution from the then British Embassy-i.e. stolen. Never did the grand old motto of the British Royal Arms turn up more appropriately, "Shamed be he who thinks evil...