Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Division of History, Government and Economics are often worse than irksome; they destroy student initiative. The average concentrator in one field is compelled to take an elementary course in the other two. If the idea of coupling all three departments is accepted as a sound one, the harsh emphasis on elementary course remains to be considered. Should an upperclassman wish to take an advanced course in the History and Government Departments instead of History I and Government 1 he should be welcomed with open arms. Today he is coldly rebuffed for such presumption...
...Senate, whose seats are filled by the grey-bearded 'personages,' is addressed [by Mussolini] with the gravity of an elder statesman; the Chamber with tempestuous fervor, and 'high inspiration' and humor. The peasants he salutes in the style of a peasant, harsh, dour, and as the journalists say 'honest!' . . . He does not promise them that the State will make their fortunes, but that, if they work the State will do what it can to help them. . . . The peasants, I think, do not show displeasure when they refer to him as un furbo...
...good reason he decides to convert into a small-bore Utopia, marries a wealthy but vague young woman whom he does not love, gets sick of it, her and himself, is about to decamp when his wife dies. But no matter how frantically the actors called each other harsh names, slapped each other's faces, revealed their inmost psychical discomfiture with long-winded monologs, the situation remained peewee, implausible...
...ladies of Addis Ababa started a fund last week to purchase foodstuffs for the troops in the field. Among the viands considered essential was a pint and a half of harsh native pepper...
...harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose...