Word: remorselessness
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...squad.") To left-wing Labor he is the "most dangerous" of Conservatives. (He, more than any other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless of enemies. Thirty years ago he burst upon San Francisco as "Windy Jack," a noisy brilliant, picturesque young hoodlum reporter with the vocabulary and manners of his teamster days in Arizona. Little about his behavior suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years ago properly educated...
...receive the interest and protection of Thomas Jefferson who at that time was the up and coming lawyer of Albemarle, Virginia. Largely through the influence of Jefferson, Lewis joined the army to participate in the Whisky Rebellion and in Mad Anthony's Indian campaign into the land of remorseless scalpings". Lewis escaped being scalped and proved to be so successful a trooper, although he performed no brilliant feats, that he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
Belgians remember with shivers the remorseless tramp, tramp of Kaiser Wilhelm's field-grey hordes, the death-belching thunder of Hohenzollern guns. One night last week the Belgian Cabinet sat up late, heard its veteran Foreign Minister, far-sighted Paul Hymans, fire a broadside of warnings...
Igloo (Universal) is the latest of many epics showing the prolonged death-grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...
...thundered, "no new principle is presented to the American people. . . . Everyone concedes that the conditions in the South are due to what we are prone to call an Act of God. The people . . . have been visited by a drouth which has been as devastating, as cruel and as remorseless as a flood or an earthquake...