Word: heinousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to its end. The prosecutor called the case ' unparalleled in the annals of crime in India in its enormity and well-planned scientific design . . . diabolical ingenuity.' Benayendra Pandey and Dr. Taranath Bayttachra were found guilty. The jury recommended mercy. Barked the judge: "The murder is too heinous to warrant clemency...
...Many heinous things are done in the name of sport, but nothing is more so than rating rodeos as Sport [TIME, Oct. 22]. They are, in the main, the most degrading, disgusting, diabolical display of cruelty that in modern times has been staged...
...while foreign furore grew. Suddenly last week the Hitler Youth discovered that August Hoppe had "falsely posed as the Hitler Youth press chief." It was further discovered that Hoppe had been expelled from the Hitler Youth. In a final effort to appease Christians, Pagan Hoppe was berated for his "heinous attacks on Christianity," and ordered to desist for one month, during which time his pagan organ Nordland was suppressed...
...insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous nature of the crime, the fact that he was himself the father of four daughters. He wound up by announcing that there was "something wrong" with any other father who did not also enjoy the electrocution of such a malefactor as Charley Dumas...
...absence of the Chancellor, Vienna police in steel helmets and armed with rifles promptly swooped down on a dozen Socialist headquarters, occupied and guarded the offices of the Arbeiter Zeitung and announced that they had uncovered evidence of heinous plots and enough bombs to wreck a good section of the city. The Farmers' Party sent a vigorous protest which was promptly suppressed. When Chancellor Dollfuss reappeared in Vienna, he was ready at last to commit himself. Assured of French support (see p. 16), he boldly called the Socialists by their Heimwehr tag, "Marxist-Bolshevists," patted the Heimwehr...