Word: hideousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabin" have been tossed about in a manner quite disrespectful to "classics." And lost in the maze of pleasant literary reminiscences the heat of debate be dissipated, a sulphurous ring of vituperative phrases has been struck. "This amendment," said Mr. Deford, "is reeking with bigotry. It is a maimed, hideous,...dwarfed, ugly, un-American, deforming thing you have evolved in this bill...
...west make little or no discrimination between the various communities inhabiting the vast subcontinent of India. All the different religions now found among millions of Hindus go by the name of Hinduism. Narrow minded persons have for the last 100 years been painting Hinduism in the most hideous possible colors. They have shown through pulpits and press their satisfaction that Hindu religious doctrines are mythological accounts of the passionate escapades and cruelties of a host of imaginary gods and goddesses. However, the East has maintained her philosophic calm at such a procedure, knowing full well that this...
Harvard should indeed be proud of her publications and more than proud of her Crimson. The editorial in that paper for January the eighteenth on the subject of pacifism was the most striking example of distorted thought, muddled expression and hideous English, which I have ever seen, even in the monthly efforts of a country high school...
Lynching?"The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the Negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims...
Some of the cartoons used by the opponents are boomerangs. One of them represents the Censor as a weeping, hideous creature, defiled in political mire. Either this has no application to the question, or it attempts to describe the persons who will examine our films,--the Commissioner, Governor, and Council and Courts. If it has any effect, it will bring the fundamental institutions of government into popular contempt. Could any anarchist strike a more nasty blow at the foundations of society...