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...risk their lives for a lofty principle in a war, they also would be murderers. The incidents of this affair were also a war by the butcher Petlura and his blood-thirsty gangs against an innocent and defenseless people. Any person who would get rid of such an inhuman, barbarous individual is a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...switchboard. . . . The switch went in. ... Sacco's hands . . . doubled into a knot. The veins in his long, thin, white hands began to rise and kept on rising until I thought they would burst and drench all of us with blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit* [the temperature of the death shock] with 100 degrees in the shade when you complain of the heat and you get some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Significance of Robinson Jeffers as a poet is, by critical consensus, that of one to rank with the greatest poets of all generations. Homer and Sophocles have not been held too lofty comparisons for him?yet he remains distinctly a product of this continent. Inhuman in his intensity?he says "Humanity is needless"; calls men "the apes that walk like herons"?he repels people who seek comfort in poetry. He takes the race as a starting

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Daudet Jailed | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...said to be a killjoy, and inhuman; a very Stiggins whose mind is straitened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Joe | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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