Word: inhumanities
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...coastline. On the way home he did a lot more exploring, some of it in the South Sea Islands. Not long after dropping anchor off New York in 1842, Wilkes was attacked in Congress for killing some cannibals who had murdered two of his officers; also for cruel and inhuman treatment of his men and for disrespect to a superior. He was exonerated by a court-martial...
...title up to date as Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, tacked it to a film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have been spurlos versenkt itself had not worried Director Irwin Esmond-of N. Y. State's Education Department (Motion Picture Division) called it "inhuman, sacrilegious and tending to incite to crime." New York censors promptly banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts of Berlin, some 67 feet were cut out of the film. Soon in other States bans and okays flew as thick as autumn leaves...
Divorced. Grant Wood, 47, earthy U. S. artist whose neat, ironic brush has stirred up many a dust storm (American Gothic, Daughters of Revolution, TIME, Sept. 5, 1932); from Sarah Sherman Wood, 55; in Iowa City, Iowa. Grounds: inhuman treatment...
They That Take the Sword not only has a good chance of success because of new interest in 20th-Century Russian history, but also stands out as a good novel in its own right. It tells its bloody epic through plausible human (and inhuman) characters. Its hero, Sergei Kuskov, is human in his contradictions. He coolly plans the assassination of Tsarist generals and police, but is tormented by puritanical scruples in his love affairs. A deadly foe of Tsarism, he nevertheless wins a medal for his zeal as a railroad construction boss, becomes a patriot in the War, gets...
...jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries as J. P. Morgan and the late Judge Elbert H. Gary...