Word: inhumanity
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...mother to work as herdboy for Bendek and his strange dark wife Gurianna at Kjelvik on the sea. On that lonely farm where, frosty winter evenings, the housedog runs barking at some invisible menace along the blackened beach, Odin works hard to be a man like Bendek in the inhuman countryside. Once, out picking cloud berries, he is attacked by mountain trolls. He beats them off with a switch, only to find that they are the Jörnstrand boys from over the hill. And so he meets their sister Karen-Anna, who is to be his love...
...Methodist activity last week at Atlantic City: ¶ Authorization of a campaign for $1,000,000 between May 15 & 30 to save the missionary, philanthropic and educational services of the church. ¶ A speech by Dr. Halford Edward Luccock of the Yale Divinity School deploring as "brutal and inhuman" the rise of U. S. Steel Corp. stock upon news of a 15% pay cut (see p. 51). Excerpts: "Every day that passes makes it more clear that there is nothing more futile than sending out to the Orient a religion which is not transforming the pagan forces which...
Colonel O. L. Spaulding, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, reiterated his belief in the effectiveness and impermanence of disabilities caused by gases. "There is no reason to believe that toxic gases are any more inhuman than other methods of warfare, although according to the Washington Conference, there are articles especially designed against their use. Lachrymators such as xylyl bromide, and the common tear gases never cause a fatality, but completely disable all combatants. Tear gas forces men to close their eyes and causes irritation sufficient to make an army unfit for service...
...monster is the most nearly terrifying. More subtle than Mr. Hyde of the staring eyes and grinning teeth, is this monster whom a mad scientist has pieced together out of the parts of corpses. He comes out of the dark a giant, stumbling, inarticulate shape, with square skull, inhuman eyelids, and the filmed eyes of one too long dead. You may see the raised suture at the wrists, where the mismatched hands are grafted to the arms...
Ellen Terry's letters to Shaw, hardly ever as long, as funny, as well-turned as his, are surprisingly human, touchingly wise. They serve as an excellent foil to the Shavian epistolary brilliance. And she brought out in the "inhuman" Shaw a side his readers and audiences have not often seen, a side of him which was uppermost when he wrote this last tribute to her memory: "She became a legend in her old age; but of that I have nothing to say; for we did not meet, and, except for a few broken letters, did not write...