Word: pitilessness
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Leon Trotzky: " A speech I made at the inauguration of 'Sverdlov's Communistic University,' Moscow, was summarized by the Pravda: 'A true revolutionist is a man who is not afraid of blowing up, of resorting to a pitiless violence. He must not be restrained by any considerations that might keep him from resorting to violence; it is for this reason that the education of a revolutionist must be based on atheism...
Bankrupt Europe-particularly her bankrupt aristocracy-sees her priceless art treasures slipping from her grasp by those pitiless economic forces which have made New York the financial capital of the world. The alarming inroads have roused Governments. Lord Curzon in a public speech said many valuable works in Britain's private libraries were crossing the Atlantic. American imports of paintings, etchings and antiques from London only for the first six months of 1923 were $3,716,644, and will probably exceed $8,000,000 for the year. Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden, Unionist M. P. for Lancashire, broached the subject...
...reaction against the orgy of triumphant platitude in our industrial life. A deliberate monotony of style that never degenerates into mere burlesque reveals in all its ridiculous solemnity the sentimentalism so dear to readers of the American Magazine and of American magazines in general. This is a convincing and pitiless exposure of sweetness and light. Mr. Oliver La Farge's "A White Man" builds up well to a weak climax; it is a good story but far from this author's best. The single book review, an appreciation by R. L. E. of Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams" slips...
...green youth, her encounters with the world, and how the world spoiled her--and how in the end she was saved from becoming the pampered little mammet that she appeared during her last weeks with Mrs. Monnerie. "The World", says Miss M., "wields a sharp pin and is pitiless to bubbles". The story is a miracle in execution--thoroughly Greek in its symmetry and close-knit restraint. The texture of it is like carefully and beautifully wrought music. The economy of art revealed on every page is amazing. No incident, no detail, however trivial it may seem, but serves...
Legislation prescribing full reports of every penny received or spent in the predomination campaign, as well as of the election receipts and expenditures, should be immediately exacted. The light of "pitiless publicity' may prove rather glaring to some of the candidates, and their "angels" before the moving van backs up to the White House door on March fourth next. It everyone realized that henceforth the spotlight was going to shine relentlessly on the actors in every Presidential drama, in all probability both the contributions and expenses would in the future be more modest, and the menace of "money in politics...