Word: merciless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bawl Street Journal, a wild parody of the sober, conservative Wall Street Journal, been published by the Bond Club of New York for its annual outing. To make up for this wartime repression, the first postwar edition of the Journal last week contained some of the most merciless, heavy-handed ribbing ever of bankers, brokers and bureaucrats...
...evidence of merciless, meticulous William Hogarth and the caricaturists who followed him, 18th-Century London was mostly a hell of rich periwigged idiots and drunken slum dwellers...
Then he joined the Society of Timid Souls, a three-year-old, self-help group, which meets in the Manhattan apartment of Bernard Gabriel, a nontimid concert pianist. Once a week for twelve merciless minutes, Lawson sang before an audience of 30 other "timid souls," who stared glassily, milled about, rang bells, booed. When he bowed for applause, they shouted that he was a ham. After a month of sweating it out, Lawson was ready to resume his career...
...absolutely O.K. but I think you ought to write a first-rate novel about it . . . instead of spilling it in little pieces." And soon Fitzgerald, with amazing fortitude, set out to do just that. "I never blame failure," he told his daughter Frances, "but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort." In The Last Tycoon he made a last, powerful effort both to create an objective character and to explain his own dilemma - that of a man torn between the "moneyed celebrity" of Hollywood and his ambition to do honest work. He had developed, says Dos Passos, "a real...
...fact was driven home first to Lieut. Colonel Byron F. King's battalion. They had come to the ridge after an easy march from their landing places, only to find themselves pinned against a main Japanese defense line, boxed in by artillery fire, their flanks under merciless mortar attack...