Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years been waging a single-handed combat against four humorless ogres: Prohibition, the Divorce Law, Commercializing the Thames, Bad English. Last week, in What a Word!, he collected his scattered witticisms against the murderers of His Majesty's English, proclaimed a jehad: "I declare a new and ruthless Word War; and I invite all lovers of good words to buckle on their dictionaries and enter the fight, whether on our side or against us. We shall often, we know, become casualties (what a phrase!) ourselves; but this will make us fight more carefully and not less keenly. So, brothers...
...stop at nothing to gain control of our whole educational system. Yesterday one of the committee members openly threatened Harvard and other universities with taxation. I thank God that we have a man on our faculty like James A. McLaughlin, who is familiar enough with Boston to expose this ruthless opposition. Exposure is what it needs. Once its real purpose is apparent, all our good little people will be glad to join the fight. Norman Hunt...
...difficult role of Mio Burgess Meredith plays with great skill and strength; Margo portrays Miriamne with gentle and compelling simplicity. Myron McCormick makes Trock a vivid incarnation of humanity reduced to the ruthless. Lee Baker as the broken judge and Austole Winogradoff as the some what Old Testament Esdras Pere contribute excellent characterizations...
...riddle of the Anglo-Saxon Puritanism of a city which is three-quarters descended from foreign stock, of the "intellectual, superiority" of a community which suffers the most ruthless and undiscriminating literary and dramatic censorship in America--this is the riddle which Mr. Beebe skilfully and sympathetically presents. He shows Boston the home of the Mathers, of Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, and Boston the scene of the-Sacco-Vanzetti riots, the John L. Sullivan fights, the James Michael Curley campaigns. He pictures the irreproachable dignity of State Street and the spectacle of the world's most notorious Tea Party...
...tradition that refuses a man the privilege of knowing wherein he has erred on an examination--or wherein he has excelled, has no excuse for continuance. Granted that the ramifications of grading systems would require tedious explanations to disgruntled students. This is unfortunate. Nevertheless, a ruthless examination of the foundations of this ancient refusal will reveal that its roots lie deeply imbedded in laziness. The very fact that all bluebooks are not forever lost to undergraduate gaze once the ink has dried is evidence enough that common sense and an understanding of a defensible curiosity in the student has supplanted...