Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not been looking forward to this moment; I hate to say harsh things about others. But this time, if I am to be true to my own doctrine, I must. Of all the stupid, trite comedies that I have ever lived through, "The Rotters," the current attraction at the Copley is perhaps the stupidest and most trite. This statement I will repeat, figuratively and on paper, in the face of Mr. H. F. Maltby who wrote the words, and of every audience which holds its sides and roars at the inanities which come floating over the footlights...
...milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded soon with another post. They admired his soldierlike obedience...
When the Mexican Government, that harsh organization, sent the foreign Roman Catholic priesthood packing from the country (TIME, Feb. 6, LATIN AMERICA), a very old nun from a convent in Mexico City took ship for Manhattan. She arrived last week-Lorenza Rivarez, Mother Superior of the Order of St. Theresa-the first of the expelled believers to tell what scenes of abomination have been enacted in nunneries and churches. Misfortune had made her shy; her rapid, sorrowful words clicked like beads, pattered like rain; a Chancine priest translated the Spanish into French; a reporter put the French into English...
...faculty drew up a harsh law which precipitated the trouble, the text of which follows in part: "Article 1 . . . And all Scholars while at their Meals shall sit in their Places and behave with Decency; and whosoever shall be rude or clamorous at such time shall be punished by one of the Tutors; not exceeding five shillings...
Heretofore, the N. E. A. support of this bill, now pendent many years, has been received by unbelievers without much comment. But last week there also came to the Congressional public hearing, a lot of harsh words about the proposed new Department. Senator Copeland of New York called it superfluous. President Lowell of Harvard called it bureaucratic and dangerously political. He said: "About education we talk much and know little." President Emeritus Judson of the University of Chicago called it a temptation to political vanity and unscientific. President Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania said it would violate state rights...