Word: pitilessness
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...profit by the lesson administered to Senator Newberry--that America is a democracy, not a plutocracy. The danger in a Presidential election that votes will actually be purchased is practically a negligible one; still it is only just that the actual truth about campaign funds should receive as "pitiless publicity" as charges and counter-charges, rumors and denials, have now for some time commanded...
Today the Union is in the University lime-light with its annual election of officers and with reports by its treasurer, and by the secretary of its library committee. It must be admitted that the Union does not bear the strong light of "pitiless, publicity" very well. Although the report is encouraging in some respects and shows that a deal of faithful and intelligent work has been done by the few men intimately interested in it, the Union has not been the success that it was hoped it would be, and that the University as a whole would like...
...most successful play of the evening was "Manacles." The lines are well-written, and the action vigorous. The confrontation of the socialist strike-leader and the pitiless manufacturer yields little dramatic novelty, but it is amazingly well done. Its being a play "with a purpose" gives it boldness, unity, and sincerity, without detracting in the least from its vividness. Joe Patterson, the strike-leader, impelled by want to attempt burglary, is surprised and captured by the manufacturer, whose house he has entered. There follows a scene in which the strike-leader, having unmasked himself, gives voice to the wrongs...
...subject as a business man. We need, quite as much as professional men, the help and discipline which study alone can give. All buying and selling to get gain is debasing in its tendency, and especially so in this great city, where every year completion becomes keener and more pitiless. Only constant effort will enable a man to continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often the case that nothing but a bank...
...many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish joys, remembrance of generous treats, the hoarded pennies invested with the itinerant vendor - and all the recollections that manhood recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful threats, unmindful of the tears and entreaties of this unhappy youth thus left at their mercy. "Take my life, but spare my peanuts," he cried in anguish; "sole reminders of my childhood's joys - my only token...