Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francis Bacon's "province." His theory often outran his data but in the main he preserved for philosophy its touch with things practical. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was "the child of Darwin and the brother of Bismarck." He sought to "correct" his pious, feminine nature by glorifying ruthless masculinity, the survival of the strongest. He ascended the Engadine and sent down his poetic prophet, "Zarathustra," to announce the death of the gods, the birth of supermen and the doctrine, "live dangerously." He was last of the Romantics. And so to contemporary Europeans, who, while not Romantics, are expressing...
...misused their influence as prominent Fascists to abstract quietly from the recently bankrupt Bank of Parma many a golden lira. The detention of these particular gentlemen was notable. All are intimates of Roberto Farinacci, recently deposed as Secretary General of the Fascist party, because of his arbitrary and ruthless extermination not only of the foes of Fascismo but of his personal enemies as well. That the new Fascist Secretary General, Auguste Turati (TIME, April 18), ordered the arrest of these Fascist oligarchs, was touted as an omen that Mussolini has "prevailed" over the worst of his henchmen...
...ruthless German," also as a former student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I recommend that he be "spurlos versenkt." LETTERS...
Lank taut-waisted fighters, urbane yet steely-eyed diplomats, suave but ruthless statesmen-these are the overlords that Britain sends to cow subject peoples. Such is George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd, British High Commissioner to Egypt-a so-called "independent state" whose King, Fuad I, reigns though he does not rule...
Odysseus Pangalos, youthful son of that ruthless autocrat, Dictator-President Theodore Pangalos of Greece, arrived last week at Belgrade, Jugoslavia, and rushed to extract one G. Skiades, Greek merchant, from the toils of the Belgrade police...