Word: heartlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ponder Heart belongs to a village idiot who is milked for laughs. The laugh content is perhaps too high, for the sensitive viewer chokes with indignation at the ponderous, and heartless treatment of old Dan Ponder. At the Shubert...
...world congress of the International Road Federation: "Individuals, societies and nations must enter a universal race for greater and greater speed to the glory of God . . . Dispensaries, teachers and missionaries must now travel by speedway, bringing health of body and soul faster than ever before . . . He would be a heartless man who opposed building of speedways and their...
...Japanese public was properly indignant. Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun last week carried a tearjerking headline: MAMMA AND BABY MARIMO FOUND. The pair had been abandoned in a milk bottle on a train from Hokkaido. The Japanese love marimos, as pets and as national treasures, and they hate anybody heartless enough to abuse them...
They showed "lunatics" lying half-naked in filthy pens, or fighting like starved wolverines when a heartless jailer tossed them a moldy crust. Some inmates were in chains; some were being beaten. More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia, mechanics or plumbers in manic-depressive states. Among them, confined by court order, were conmen, kleptomaniacs, counterfeiters, and even some who had committed homicide...
...showing signs of spring fever. Most of the week's dramas ran in pairs like truant schoolboys. There were two broad farces, two plays about frustrated spinsters, two about boxers, two about lady spies, two about heartless fathers, and two about the general untrustworthiness...