Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretty bad time. Prices are high; jobs are few; and taxes are heavy. The country simply can't afford, at such times, experiments with either academic socialism or revolutionary mitigation. The Conservative, Party is no patent medicine vendor. It does not profess to have a remedy for every evil, but it is the only Party which offers you the least hope and knows how to make democracy safe for the world...
...they continually mentioned the defective bridge, the unmentionable Gas Plant, and the impossible trolley line--so much so that we, who are not a bit, scientific, realized immediately that the town was being ruined by graft. However, much to our relief the "Glendale Observer" editorially besieged the forces of evil to such an extent that Kenneth was forced to speak before a meeting of the townsfolk to defend the editorials which had been dashed from Joe's fiery pen. He said quite frankly that he couldn't make a speech, and we thought ourselves that perhaps it might be just...
...Edman would have one believe. The average undergraduate seems rarely to find his love of abstract Beauty and Truth so strong that is causes him to shrink from existence. However, there are undoubtedly a considerable number of sensitive men who go through such an experience. That this is an evil seems self-evident. Education is simply instruction in the art of living, and when it becomes divorced from life it loses all its meaning. The fundamental remedy for this situation as for a considerable number of other educational evils, seems to be the appointment of instructors who are men before...
...reason difficult to ascertain, in those days, as indeed often today, the criminal was regarded as an evil does by his own volition Remedy punish the culpit until his tortured flesh makes his mind swear nevermore Humanitarian impulses gradually lessened the severity of this punishment, but the conception of the criminal as one who is mentally diseased or one who was made such by the cruel forces of social environment has but slowly gained acceptance...
...automobile, mirabile dictu, has caused the alarming decadence of French literature. When Zola, Daudet, Flaubert, and Maupassant went out, the evil-smelling horseless carriage came in. Since the hectic days of the Paris-Madrid races Frenchmen have been too busy driving and repairing their machines--have smudged their fingers too much with grease--to cultivate the fine arts of Moliere and Racline...