Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shivering of parallel fifths in the high winds. Critics found The Bells an effective piece of scoring, mourned its unevenness. The audience was less reserved, applauded loudly, even more loudly when Composer Rachmaninoff came on after the intermission and played his Second Concerto in C Minor with almost inhuman virtuosity...
...duties that really belonged to the states. Even Mr. Hoover did not dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative is definitely out of the question. What was forbidden Congress so recently in the Guffey case is now denied the individual states with equal force...
...second feature, "Man Hunt," with William Gargan and Marguerite Churchill, is amusing enough, plays new variations on the theme of the small-town reporter and the not-too-inhuman gangster. The bill is more than satisfactory for that reading period pressure on the head. Sharp eyes may notice that the bank set in the first film serves as the sherifi's office in the second...
Accordingly, the proposition was submitted secretly to the Allies, got a prompt, flat rejection from Foreign Secretary Grey. Aggrieved, Secretary Lansing wrote to the President: "It seems to me that the British Government expected us to denounce submarine warfare as inhuman and to deny the right to use submarines in at tacking commercial vessels; and that these statements by Sir Edward Grey evidence his great disappointment that we have failed to be the instrument to save Britishcommerce from attack by Germany. . . ." By April, Allied rejection of the U. S. proposal was unanimous and had been docilely accepted by Secretary Lansing...
...even in small doses will cause delirium which means a condition of mental excitement and confusion and since it will also produce hallucinations which means that the mind wanders and the individual is in a false frame of mind-false sense of perception-I feel that it is unsafe, inhuman and should not be employed for that purpose. S. A. SAVITZ...