Word: mistreatment
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...Stern trial and punishment, not only of the top Nazis but to "extend down vertically into the population for a certain distance." To be executed: all high Nazi and Gestapo officials, Gauleiters, members of the Army High Command who helped to mistreat occupied countries, lesser officials who zealously carried out Nazi policies. To be imprisoned for life: all smaller fry who acted with "singular cruelty." To be interned, exiled or held in labor battalions: all incurable antidemocrats...
There are very few Tom Halls, but we cannot afford to mistreat them. Because there are such a tiny minority, the only danger from them arises out of our own brutality towards them. We recognize the right of sincere objectors not to serve in the Armed Forces. We cannot then refuse them the right not to participate in a compulsory registration designed primarily to provide men for those Armed Forces. The British as a matter of fact recognize this right, and they have apparently found it possible to distinguish between draft dodgers and genuine pacifists. We might do well...
...never liked me. ... She would drink all night and drag me out of bed at 4 in the morning to tell me if I'd die she would have all my money. . . . I'd go to her room and she'd be drunk and mistreat me, throwing up to me that I was a love child...
...raffish vagabond who considers it beneath his dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema...
Well, it was extremely funny, wasn't it -- about as hilarious as a Nazi Jew flogging would be. Unquestionably, nothing is so diverting as brutally to mistreat a group of earnest, serious men who are giving their time and services in the cause of a humanitarian ideal. On the other hand it requires very little courage to heckle and boo and pelt grapefruit from the comforting security of the crowd, and clowning always draws approbation. The next logical step would be to overturn the hearse at a funeral amid shouts of laughter...