Word: inhumanities
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This collection of 14 of his short stories, published less than two years after his death, provides high-caliber ammunition for Dreiser's detractors. The homely virtues are still here: the worried kindliness with which he awkwardly embraces his characters, the groping for the why of inhuman behavior. Typical tales...
...little to do with many things that have happened in the U.S. recently, but almost everything to do with the Duke and the Dauphin and others who peopled Mark Twain's piazza. Not for Fields was the jet-propelled gagging of the radio studios, as fast and inhuman and footless as a new transcontinental speed record. His tempo was adagio...
...raffishly through a romantic farce. Their problem: to straighten out a few domestic-financial tangles which were left unsolved when Mr. Morgan was struck down by a heart attack. The movie is inoffensive fooling, but talented Comics Morgan and Wynn have reason to accuse their employers of unkind and inhuman treatment...
...ordination, King Alexander unexpectedly approved him as successor to the Archbishop. He took office in 1937. No sycophant, the new Archbishop repeatedly urged his royal benefactor to abolish the royal dictatorship. Later, Archbishop Stepinac lashed out at the Nazi "master race" idea and condemned the execution of hostages as "inhuman and anti-Christian...
Patently no admirer of Cunningham, Walker reported several of his class balked at the assignment and demurred at the "cruel and inhuman torture" of being required to peruse the column daily. He confidently expects in universally condemnatory analysis from his students, and when queried as to the possibility that some heedless student might report Cunningham pleasant reading, muttered eminously, "It will have to be a better reason than I can think...