Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such an admission must delight many authors outraged by a cacophonous conjunction of insult bearing words. Perhaps it will take the sting from an evil-flavored review to know that the critic did not believe his published opinion. In order to hold his job, the reviewer must grind out comment which will command attention. And obviously the easiest method of inspiring interest is the satirical. All mankind from the village gossip to the astute politician is quite willing to hear evil of its neighbor, be he friend...
Such is the evil of volubility. For offended fairies wave their wands only to vanish. To the motto, "silence is golden", there might well be added "Speak not until you are spoken to" Speechlessness is still a Sphinx's greatest asset...
...suburban station near Guadalajara, a crowd of evil-looking men swarmed into third-class carriages attached to the Mexico City Express...
...have been accused of all sorts of indecencies for making the visit, and the chief of the sect instead of thanking me for attempting to free her from her evil spirits, turned her congregation against...
...present system of athletics, including the money making power of football, supports one of the fundamental elements of the "democratic ideal", namely, inter-class and intra-mural sports. The second argument in their defense was that the publicity ensuing from success in sports is not necessarily an evil but other a natural reward for the person who reaches the top in any line of effort...