Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imagine the surprise and horror of the old Puritan who designed that law should he return today to find the sinful elegance of the University Theatre, settled securely within a stone's throw of the Yard. Ah, what evil times have befallen Ye Town of Cambridge...
Following this categorical denial, Dr. Lasker struck back with a sensational countercharge. He asserted that on his last appearance in this country evil hands had tampered with the chess-clock, a two-faced affair intended for impartial allotment of thinking-time to the combatants. The clock, wrote Dr. Lasker, used in his match with José Capablanca, present world's champion, had unquestionably been "jimmied." Capablanca had received therefrom long, comfortable contemplation-periods; he (Lasker) had been rushed into illadvised, catastrophical decisions. What kind of etiquette had this been? Dr. Lasker's answer was published while six international...
...treat all workingmen like brothers, never again allow a monster like Efficiency to be created. The villain topples off the roof. With Efficiency and Invention thus disposed of, happiness comes to man, the hero finds the heroine's lips, Labor and Capital strike hands, the city destroyed by evil counsel of Efficiency is to be rebuilt-how, is not divulged. Ufa might better have shut the eyes of its great cameras than permit them to reflect nonsense in such grandeur...
Whereas, the President, representing the negative, was able to cite dozens of specific defects in the bill and to suggest dozens of specifically evil consequences which, it could not be denied, might arise. Nevertheless, no Martian and few Earthmen could say that the President triumphed as a statesman. For this reason...
Tibet. Colonel Peter Kozlov, foremost Russian explorer, last week published in Moscow a report on his recent discovery of Kharakota, dead Tibetan city. Huge stone figures of "evil-eyed females" and a wellful of buried treasure were prominent items. Colonel Kozlov estimated that the simian population of Tibet-monkeys, gorillas, mandrills-far outnumbered the human "and could supply the world's demand for rejuvenation glands for a century." In Kookooner Lake he came upon an island inhabited only by three large-framed, shaggy Buddhist monks who, never before having seen a civilized man, fled like pious cavemen...