Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Children either like music, very much or they dislike it very much. Consequently their likes and dislikes are very outwardly expressed. A song that proves harsh or inharmonious to the child's ears will never prove very popular to any of the musical public. A child sings the songs he cares for and booes the ones for which he has a dislike, and in this way controls their popularity...
...this gossipy vituperation, Writer Forbes gives his explanation: "Some of the may be regarded as unduly harsh. The truth is that the writer has things here reported and quoted received a larger number of bitter letters from past and present Ford workers than has ever been received regarding any other employer in America...
Henceforth, although Germany is still bound to disarmament by the Versailles Treaty, she will not be under the harsh supervision of Allied officers. Instead League civilians will function, if and when any League-member-state shall enter a protest with the League that Germany is arming again...
...called Facts of Life, such as cigarettes and harsh language fall violently on the timid souls of the gentlemen who are engineering the present day reforms. Crushed by the evident and inevitable, they rise in their might and throw off the onus and destroy it utterly, stifling it on the front pages of the tabloids, and all lest some spirit now tender and sweet as the violet become aware of these things and grow up into a cauliflower, or something else far removed from violets...
...Catholic Church has been called the desire of the jelly-fish for the rock. God has become the rage among the younger intellectuals in Europe. "La jeune France" has deserted almost en masse, under the leadership of Cocteau, to Rome. Synthesis and escape from this world's harsh disillusionments and an all-pervading peace come with incense and liturgy...