Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treason" is too harsh a word for Col. Lindbergh...
...Wagner?"petty treason" is too harsh a term. But you raise an interesting question, the old conflict between heart & head?and who has ever been able to decide between them? True, Col. Lindbergh had the opportunity o; showing a front as grim as any stern old Roman, to whom the life of a son counted as nothing against the fair fame of his State. Such a man might say: "A child is only a child?one may have many children?but bright Justice shall not be prostituted to the dark gods of the under-world...
...took a prize last year for being the best popular record made in France; and colored Josephine Baker's "J'ai Deux Amours." From Germany there is a Marlene Dietrich record, "Jonny" on one side, "Peter" on the other, for people who like naughty lyrics and do not mind harsh, off-pitch singing...
...period of prosperity was the fashion for hostile biographies of the great figures of American History, a fashion which virtually ended with the publication of Edgar Lee Master's "Lincoln the Man", and the death of Lytton Strachey. It is significant that the recent trend has been toward a harsh exposure of the foremost American capitalists, as though in vicarious revenge for the collapse which their system has suffered. The figures who were cynically endured in their decade of triumph are savagely caricatured today. Thus J. M. Leonard in "The Tragedy of Henry Ford" just published presents Ford...
...interview printed in yesterday's issue of the News Dean Gauss of Princeton says that it is a mistake for one who is not bright to attempt to work his way through college, since he is subjected to both physical and mental handicap. The bare statement sounds with a harsh note...