Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even in the U. S. Observers last week pondered some of the things people would want to know about Mr. Baker apart from his record...
...wrote other tense melodramas, Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair) moves more swiftly than the law but with all its ruthless directness. Its plot has the fascinating features of a front-page murder story. The Command to Love. The balance of power in international politics is not maintained by heartless artillery alone. Every French diplomat to the Spanish court, for instance, avails himself of the services of a seductive military attache. Since all state treaties are in the hands of men who are in turn in the hands of their wives, it is the attache's business to handle...
...genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series of heartless frauds"; but the culprit, who had conducted his own defense, rose to the occasion with a deep bow and the words: "My Lord, I only go where all accused men are sent in this land...
...have perpetrated a heartless fraud. . . . The name of a man who has adorned our English literature has been dishonored...
...bequeath books for a mere pittance on the regal powers that be is such a dismal proceeding that it saps the strength of even those exuberant ones who have just emerged from the course in which texts were used. But they emerge to find a cold and heartless world, one dominated by Simon Legrees. Better, far better to assume the charitable and munificent pose and to give the books to the Phillipse Brooks House Library. There they will be appreciated, and the quality of gratitude will remain an unstrained...