Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With evil intent comes "Doc" Madison and his gang to exploit the healing powers of the Patriarch. But they reckon without two things--faith and love. On the eve of success, Helena, who is posing as the Patriarch's long-lost granddaughter, suffers twinges of conscience. She finally tells Harry Evans and Michael Coogan that she can not go through with the conspiracy. The Patriarch is too good a man. But, the forces of good have not been working on Helena alone. Both Harry and Michael have found in this little village a love which has shown them the error...
Senator Moses, Chairman of the Committee on Printing, purposes to remedy this evil. He sent letters last week to members of the next Congress notifying them that hereafter the Public Printer will print only the actual debates of Congress in eight-point type, as heretofore, and that all " extensions," etc., will appear in six-point (smaller) type. A very considerable saving will be brought about by the change...
...privileged to speak upon the floor. This privilege has often been abused for the purpose of conducting elaborate lobbies in favor of special legislation. Mr. Mondell, late of the House, and Mr. Lenroot of the Senate have both expressed the opinion that lobbying by ex-members is a growing evil to which Congress must sooner or later address itself, or suffer undue influence at the hands of irresponsible and special interests...
...Committee, with its eyes open for evil has overlooked a means to its end which would surely be twice as effective. The Fascisti, having doctored Italy's physical ills, have turned their attentions to its morals, and have formed an organization to attack indecent literature by the same forceful methods used in governmental matters. With ecclesiastical enthusiasm--for Mussolini was a monk--they are going straight to the root of the evil, the authors. What is more, by intimidating also the critics who encourage those writers, the organization is destroying creator and sponsor as well...
...Johnson laid the "Cock Lane ghost" by showing that some one who had learned the dangerous minimum of fact was playing upon the credulity of the public. So completely did the Salem witches take in the hardheaded Puritans, that they were placed in the fire to drive out the evil spirits. Mary Ellen of Nova Scotia kept sophisticated newspaper readers undecided between belief and scorn. And more recently a nurse caused gray bearded doctors to shake their puzzled heads at her steadily maintained temperature of 114 degrees until the hoax was discovered in the form of a hot water bottle...