Word: malevolentisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subbayah crawled in between the tent supports, lay down beside a draped stick set up in the ground. At the base of the stick he seated, with much show of tenderness, a malevolent-looking little doll. A helper hung clothtent-walls around Subbayah. Few minutes later the walls were stripped...
Because each Freshman was subjected to a barrage of questions, he naturally felt that obstacles were being put in his path, and that some malevolent hierarchy of officials wished to prevent him from majoring in the field of his first choice. The Committee's bark was worse than its bite...
In Paris, as Premier Laval boarded a wagon-lit for Geneva, he snapped positively, "Peace will be made! It will be made despite malevolent indiscretion, spiteful controversies and misleading reports."
There arose a distinguished group of portraitists of the primitive mind-Frazer, Sumner & Keller, Malinowski, Boas. One of these was Lucien Levy-Bruhl, longtime professor of the University of Paris, who published his first noteworthy treatise in 1884, followed by Primitive Mentality, How Natives Think, The "Soul" of the Primitive...
The Informer (RKO). When considering the Irish, the fixed policy of Hollywood in the past has been to do so in terms of either Abie's Irish Rose or Peg o' My Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a...