Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From London to Gandhi cabled Vithalbhai Patel, onetime President of the Indian Legislative Assembly: "You expect His Majesty's Government to modify its actions. Your expectation is based upon the assumption that the British Government has a heart which we can touch by our sufferings. It is heartless. ... I, with all Indians abroad, deplore your decision to fast unto death...
Fumed the able, vigorous Chronicle, Protestant Episcopal monthly: "It is to be hoped that no other diocese will follow the example of Massachusetts. . . . The salaries of all missionaries are small enough but the proposition to reduce them 10% is not only a stupid blunder but a heartless procedure. . . . Things are wrong, grievously wrong-the honor of the Church is at stake...
...attempt to befriend some dear old things downstairs. In the course of their philanthropy they have the daughter of the family packed off to Canada. She departs brokenhearted. They also arrange an operation for the invalid mother. She dies. The father (venerable 0. P. Heggie), mortally stricken by the heartless kindness of his neighbors, is left to face his future empty-handed and alone...
...honorable means to have this case dismissed and to end this tragedy which involved the reputation of one of the most gentle and beautiful characters I have ever known. Their efforts were in vain, and again I repeat the purpose of the plaintiff, to my mind, was most heartless in seeking to foist upon an unsophisticated people an unwholesome and dangerous book, the publication of which would only have the tendency of undermining the morals of this nation and to make legal marriage a mockery...
...Gandhi has charged British employers with heartless, indifferent exploitation of their Indian employes. The Royal Commission stigmatized last week the "vicious system" whereby British employers do not hire & fire their Indian help themselves, but leave this to Indian foremen who extort the last anna of tribute from wretches who pay to get a job, pay to keep it. An entire chapter is devoted by the Royal Commission to abuses and extortions practiced upon simple Indian peasants who come to town seeking factory jobs...