Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vchov and Mme. Petrova unfortunately recovered at dawn, and their heads were promptly crushed "with a heavy axle beam" while the mob howled "to drive away their evil spirits...
...NAKED MAN ? Vere Hutchinson?Century ($2). A man's dream of one woman, his lust for another, need of a third?these are his nakedness. A son,' conceived in drunkenness and evil, had stagnated in the murk of a coal mine for 13 years with but two gleams of light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land...
...York Times: "What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged in it to the notoriety of gladiators and matadors. . . . The remedies proposed editorially by the Harvard and Yale dail'es strike at the root of the evil...
...Philadelphia Public Ledger: "The clashing exchanges of opinion in the Yale, Harvard, and Princeton student dailies and the frequent protests from faculty members, reveal the growing revolt against the evil influences of a great sport. . . . . It is the friends of football who are concerned about it now. They hope to see it stripped of its unhealthy intensity, its taint of commercialism and again to find in it more of sportsmanship and a little less...
...Boston Herald: "If the evil has not been exaggerated. What is the remedy? And what do the students say for themselves? At the Wesleyan University conference they were agreed that football needs to be curtailed in the interest of education. . . . And if college athletics really need revision, what more promising sign could there be than the undertaking of the task by the students themselves...