Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credit of Mr. Godfrey that he did not fall into the evil ways of most antiquarians but kept the old masterpiece so free from all modern renovations that the young bloods who go to see it this week will understand why it played to record houses for 1400 consecutive nights, a run which far outstripped the present gold mine, "Abbie's Irish Rose...
...land who was going to bribe a public official and imperil his reputation and character, who would select his only son to carry the bribe? The selection of that only son was the very indicia that the man who sent the money had nothing in his mind which was evil or corrupt. . . . Does a bribed official give or send to a briber a promissory note for the bribe...
...assassinations, insanity, jealousy, disease and death. The horrible nature of operatic librettos is intensified by poignant, passionate music, acting and singing. The American mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera. It is distinctly a foreign, alien expression, with a far-reaching in fluence for evil. Today, everyone knows the mental nature of cause and effect; and one cannot witness horrible scenes or be mentally a participant in corrupt and degraded poisonous taint. . . ." Thus The Standard, Ku Klux Klan organ...
...This disingenuous attitude of quibbling over means of enforcement will not blind the world to the fact that Japan, while anxious to pretend cooperation with western nations in a humanitarian program, is at bottom unwilling to forfeit the commercial advantage which she draws from the continuance of the opium evil...
...This evil is not exggerated. It is a real obstacle in the way of a thorough education, in the sense employed by Dean Holmes. If it is to be remedied, more tutors must be added to the departments. At present, so little time can a tutor devote to any one student that he can not know him or his needs. Every system of large-scale education reduces to a bare minimum the contacts between professor and student. It was hoped that the tutor would counteract this disadvantage of a large college. But when forced to share himself among too many...