Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meanwhile, Bierce went on writing grotesque and macabre tales. In one, a father is decapitated by a mowing machine, in another a man bashes in his wife's head with a mallet, in a third a dog gnaws on the bones of a child. His general nausea for mankind erupted into the epigrams of The Devil's Dictionary. Samples...
Although appealing in its simplicity to the military mind, this hardly disposes of the case. Those thinkers concerned with the evolution of the species cannot fail to take notice of Mr. Husband and his cephalic tick-tock. Heretofore mankind has feared that the machines it created would someday engulf it. Hardly reckoned upon has been the spectre of human devolution into protoplasmic mechanisms. Today, the public turns apprehensively to these tight-lipped toilers in Social Relations Laboratories the country over for polysyllabic reassurance. It is to be hoped that the experts will not stand mute to the challenge...
...distinction; pudgy Bookmaker Frank Erickson, who never got beyond the fourth grade ("I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might intend to criminate me"); Water Commissioner James J. Moran, a granite-jawed Irishman clearly following some elaborate, personal code of honor that the common run of mankind would never comprehend; and the virulent clash of words and wills between New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer and Senator Charles Tobey...
...town of Thetford, Norfolk, England, gave America one of her greatest citizens, Thomas Paine. Not only has he been described as the Friend of Mankind, but as America's Godfather. There is no need for us to tell you what he achieved for the United States of America, which phrase he coined, since America's indebtedness to Paine has been proclaimed by many of your Presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt...
...responded: "I go with such determination to work for the cause, and such will to throw everything I have, and that God may give me in the future, into that cause, that I fear it not. It is like a divine dispensation...to serve my country and serve mankind...