Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murdered without cause, had actually begun the trouble by striking an old Freemason, Cavaliere Bandinelli, violently across the face, while trying to make him divulge the names and addresses of all the Freemasons in Florence. Benciolini, a friend of the old man, had then shot the Fascist, and the harsh reprisals which followed were alleged to have been committed by disciplined Fascist militiamen...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's sombre tragedy of the young wife who fell in love with the son of her harsh New England husband...
...spoke in modulated Spanish vocables, which his interpreter translated into the harsh foreign tongue. Suddenly he seemed to wax eloquent. The reporters sensed that something dramatic was coming. He waved his manicured finger tips at his silk shirt, his gold wristwatch, his well tailored suit...
Suddenly the harsh voice of the translator interpreted: "What is there about me that looks like a Bolshevist...
Senor Morones' voice in triumph echoed through the bedroom, and the harsh voice at his side interpreted: "That is what the Bolshevists themselves thought when I tried to get into Russia two years ago. They would...