Word: inhuman
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...Professor Leonard described and analyzed the fears which for a quarter of a century have prevented his traveling beyond the phobic barriers of his home and the six blocks surrounding it. He was divorced last year by his second wife who, after 20 years of marriage, charged "cruel and inhuman treatment by means other than physical violence...
William Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip...
...understand the intricacies of "dialectical materialism" or "surplus value," but he does know that he cannot find work, though he is willing, that men reap financial gains far greater than their usefulness to society merits, and that the present system of production and distribution is unfair and often inhuman...
...estimated that more than a million of bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. The neighbourhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and of all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode . . . thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone grinders . . . sold to the farmers to manure their lands...
Sued for Divorce. Minnesota's Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, "only ex-convict in Congress"; by Mrs. Lydia Schneider Shoemaker; in New London, Wis. Charges: "Cruel and inhuman treatment...