Word: evils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from metropolitan journalism for us to realize, as our work on The Dartmouth draws to a close, that America is drunk with NEWS, not with TRUTHS, and that the confusion of "impartial" and "accurate" reporting with genuine portrayal of the actual situation is an evil that reaches deep into the ineffectiveness of our public opinion...
There are, however, a few notes of Irish heroism sounding above the clang of futility. The material speeches, rapidly assorting that war is terrible but not evil and that there is no redemption except by blood, have as hollow a ring as a master of irony could give them. They are heard only as they soop into a pub, where a bartender and a prostitute occasionally listen. But when the British soldiers complain of the sniping, the answer. "Do you want us to come out in our skins and throw stones?" is almost happy, pugnacious patriotism...
...writing daily reports on his fellow workmen, advanced to union-busting, then settled down in a midwest industrial centre to bore into the local labor movement in behalf of the manufacturers. In time he got to be a cynical official of the city's Central Labor Union, an evil power in State A. F. of L. affairs, and served as a delegate to the historic 1935 A. F. of L. convention in Atlantic City where John L. Lewis bolted...
...Mack's dissatisfied players demanded more money, he decided to break up the team, sold his famed infield to clubs in his own league. The Federal League lost so much money it was forced to quit at the end of the 1915 season. Connie Mack had come on evil days, too. For seven years (1915-21) his Athletics finished last in the American League, while he squinted shrewd eyes at 1,000 young men to find the right combination for another winning team...
...save this exclusive German property Das Schwarze Korps also came out against those Nazis who wish to displace Christmas with a pagan winter festival and to substitute Balder for Christ. Balder, God of Light in Norse mythology, was invulnerable to everything except mistletoe. The God of Evil, Loki, Balder's enemy, found out his secret, persuaded the blind god Hoder to kill Balder by throwing a sprig of mistletoe...