Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kaspar then tempts Max with offers of "free bullets,"* guaranteed to hit any mark. Poor Max! He yields to the Evil One, takes tearful farewell of his beloved, meets Kaspar, Zamiel and collection of assorted ghosts in the Wolf's Glen at midnight. Amid fearful shrieks, sights unholy, and much sulphurous stage-fire, seven bullets are cast. Max pockets them. He has not yet learned the necessity of caution in accepting gratuities from oily malefactors. Meanwhile the lovely Agatha is a prey to bad dreams and evil omens...
...final shot! Max aims at a white dove. "Don't shoot-I am the dovel" screams Agatha. Too late. She falls-into the arms of her bridesmaids. But she is protected by a magic funeral wreath, given to her by an aged hermit. Foiled is Zamiel, the evil "free-shooter," and in his rage he directs the wandering bullet into the heart of the villainous Kaspar. Max confesses and reforms, and all ends in holy rejoicing...
...necessary to convince the world--or a dominating majority, of the futility, the horror of modern war. In other words, the solution of the problem lies in so forming public opinion that the answer to the first question will universally be "Yes". Until the world considers war the worst evil, there will be alternatives, worse than war, which will make war seem desirable by contrast...
Since the always-inviting subject of "pacifism" has again presented itself at the University in a definite shape through the medium of the Debating Union, some reflection on the question is inevitable. And in any consideration there must be two phases. First, "is war the worst evil around? Assuming that war is more to be avoided than anything else, or at any rate, extremely undesirable, how may it best he prevented...
Probably there are certain evil persons,--no friends of the present Administration,--who derive a soul-satisfying pleasure from reading carefully every shameful account of corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics...