Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...print a story like that unless you are able to report that one of the boys got up and slapped the heartless girl across her smug little puss...
Ever since "Col. D. Streamer" (Harry Graham) wrote this callous little quatrain (Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes') in 1901, British poetasters have amused themselves by writing variations on the theme. Recently London's weekly Time & Tide offered prizes for the best wartime ruthless rhyme. Three of the six prizewinners...
Together, at parties, Louella and Docky are laughable only to the heartless. Seldom have two middleaged, unbeautiful people been more recklessly, conspicuously in love. A few drinks among friends, and they are necking like high-school kids. Their relationship is a firecracker-chain of enthusiasms which would exhaust less magnificent mortals. For Dr. Martin, until malaria (contracted in Australia) returned him from the Army last spring, was one of the most happily energetic men in a community unexcelled, in certain fields, for tirelessness. And Louella, in giddiness as in gossip, is a mighty fortress...
...hand Graebner noted that the "[Soviet] Government is not entirely for the people." Hundreds stand in food queues, regardless of whether or not there is food at the end of the line for them, simply because the Government does not bother to inform them. "Too efficient, too ruthless, too heartless," in most respects, "Government instead of being for the people is for Russia as a State and for1 the bureaucracy which controls it." Along with the high popular courage and "simple, kindhearted, fun-loving" behavior, Graebner was conscious of "an unmistakable heaviness in the Russian atmosphere...
...worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other is the world of God: the only world in which fearlessness and friendship are possible, and almost nothing else is. In Silone's cosmography there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world...