Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book Reviews, however, that the greatest strides seem to have been made. Particularly good is the review signed H. W. B., reviewing Arthur Machen's new book. Mr. Wheelwright is a little too harsh although his harshness may be justified in his criticism of Mr. Beebe's poems. The Book Reviews serve their purpose: to tell us the substance of the book and to influence our selection...
...obtained. The decision has been generally approved by the press and prosecuting officials. "In the long run," said the Boston Transcript, "the third degree injures the cause of Justice and the administration of the criminal law." But police officers, it is submitted, will always be tempted to resort to harsh questioning-not to obtain confessions for use as such in trials, but to get "leads" which will result in unearthing facts from which a chain of competent evidence can be woven...
...These are harsh facts, you may say. They...
Africa is a harsh nursery for receptive natures. The author had to reconcile his to the task of keeping in order some sheep and some natives- a task which included counting, shearing, earmarking, castrating the former ; humoring, doctoring, whipping, burying the latter. This was itself taxing for a young and literary Englishman- a Beau Brummel in khaki pants and red shirt, exiled from home because of ill-health. There were compensating novelties. For instance, on the night of his arrival he lay shivering through the white hours in a disused woodshed while a lion drank from a reservoir outside...
...dead. He was known throughout France for his bolshecratic manner of meting out Jus- tice. At his funeral, Bolsheviki paraded, waved red flags. Priests, called in by the family to officiate at the burial, declined to countenance the carrying of the flags: bitter, bad words from the Communists; hard, harsh tones from the Priests. A compromise was finally reached. The Communists retired to the end of the procession with their flags, while the Priests and nonCommunists marched ahead...