Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biographers would have gone on such a search. John Middleton Murry and the late David Herbert Lawrence were once friends; now Murry has written a book to tell the world why Lawrence was a false prophet. His half-apologetic epilog is addressed to the dead man: "The evil that you did, is done; and it is evil. You muddied the spring of living water that flowed in you more richly than in any man of your time. . . . You bewildered men who might have learned from you. betrayed men who would have followed you. We needed a leader and a prophet...
...educational system in America has been challenged, this time a by a college undergraduate rather than by a professional educator. W.H. Hale, in the current issue of the Harkness Hoot, has accused the American university of debasing its function by stooping to popularism and then trying to cure the evil by legislation on requirements, by the establishment of new institutions, and by the erection of costly buildings...
...said, a fundamental cause of it is greed, who are they that did not add their part to the picture? This is a democracy of blame as well as opportunity. We were all in it-flapper, financier, newspaper man and manufacturers, laborers and politicians. It is true that its evil effects do not fall on all equally but the evil effects have been pretty widely distributed nevertheless. Fixing the blame is the occupation of the people who have lost their nerve. Finding the causes and planning the future is the part for the constructive minded people. . . . The immediate present...
...been sniffing at this proprietary bone for some time. The philosophy of the Journal, and of the American Medical Association, is to keep foolish people from doctoring themselves where a doctor is really needed. The family medicine chest can become, in its philosophy, a Pandora's box of evil...
Last August she herself had the "miseries." An evil spirit, she told her devotees, was haunting her. "Lord Jehoviah done told me to go to my old home in Kentucky and fight that spirit...