Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Main Street. The Warner Brothers have made a fatal step. They have finally capitulated to the harsh outcries of the movie critics and produced a book as it was printed. They have introduced no extra lovers for their celluloid Carol; they have sedulously omitted all train wrecks and one-piece bathing suits. They have admitted that Sinclair Lewis knew more about their business than they...
...Crumbs. The beauty of Leda and Barnaby, and the "faint perfume" of their love, rises above all the reek and crassness of the Crumb materialism. If anything, Miss Gale errs on the side of the sentimental. She does not allow the Crumbs the inevitable victory of the harsh over the delicate...
...such feeble taunt can be flung at Percy Haughton's kind of football. His advent means that a number of Columbia's young men are going to submit to iron discipline, to a harsh cenobitic rule, for the upbuilding of the corporate over-soul. That is a fine thing in this selfish age. New York Times...
...Italy restored Rhodes to Turkey. Immediately the inhabitants of the islands protested against coming under Turkish sovereignty, expressing their desire to become a part of the Greek nation. During the World War demonstrations in favor of Greece were very powerful in the island, against which Italy took harsh measures. The status of Rhodes now is the same as in 1912. It is held by Italy, claimed by Greece, and technically belongs to Turkey. Common race, blood, and national feeling are the ties which bind Greece to Rhodes...
...denounce the people who were blown up in the Lusitania, and condone those who blow them up; may weaken, by hostile notion, aggressive designs on Germany after the declaration of war; may make wartime service to one's country a political liability; may do infinite harm, by harsh criticism and stubborn blocking, to both Democratic and Republican administrations alike; yet find himself, by almost unanimous choice and in monotonous regularity, reelected to the Senate. That is--if he is Robert La Follette...