Word: horridness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus conjured up the horrid vision of uncounted millions of Bolshevik Frenchmen and Bolshevik Russians leagued suddenly against the German Nazis, Realmleader Hitler with pistol-shot rapidity spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...
...horrid petition is circulating in your midst, asking support of President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Bill. Despise the dirty thing, chill it with boredom, shake it off in righteous anger, yield to it for the pure sentimental thrill, but don't sign. Harvard's President has disgraced her enough, without adding the scandal of her sons boasting when they should, in common decency, be ashamed...
...only in these obvious ways, but in the wrigglings of tiny bacteria, causing dull pain and anger and bad temper and unhappiness in otherwise invincible souls; in the Virus, which none yet understand save as agony and slow, torturous death; in the horrid unfinished minds of morons, lunatics, imbeciles, and idiots, living feebly and bewildered and sometimes in great pain, and also in those great ideals and principles which make it necessary to keep such things in their misery; there also will you find me active...
What began last fortnight as Spain's least bloody election in years was swelling last week into horrid crescendos of threatened social upheaval, secession and civil war. Overnight 30,000 political prisoners came bustling out of jail. They included the furious Catalonian secessionist, "President" Luis Companys, who had just begun to serve a 30-year stretch in a grim Andalusian prison for having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more...
...your reference to Stalin as a "terrorist" while withholding the same qualification from Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The labor movement, the proletariat as a whole can expect nothing but sniggering from a magazine whose heart bleeds over poor J. P. Morgan having to answer questions before a horrid munitions investigating committee. Your cut of a Morgan partner exposed to the "cold stare" of a committee clerk was a perfect illustration of your antipathy...