Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free for a moment, get a bloody clout in the face. Squirming and kicking, the boys die under the smothering hands. Sir James Tyrrell, a discontented gentleman in charge of the job, hastens to report to his employer, Richard Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the boys. Gloucester, a crafty, ruthless, sharp-featured scoundrel who drags a foot is already calling himself King Richard...
...account of her growing faith in the ability and justification of her husband is excellently conveyed to us by the author. It is this phase of the novel which is most interesting. The evolution of the love of Catharine for Martin and the lessening of her regard for her ruthless, sacrosant mother are both given to us convincingly. The portrait of the mother, Florence Willet Carmichael, succeeds remarkably. She is a grasping, hypocritical woman, capable of any actions which might further her own interests. The helplessness of her husband in the face of her "holy crusade" is pathetic...
...Vaida-Voevod cried: "I made a great mistake in trying to cooperate with His Majesty and I fear that my policy has proved disastrous for our Party. I assume full responsibility." The disaster consisted in the sudden resurgence of the Bratianu National Liberal Party, impelled by secretive, intriguing, ruthless Deputy Constantine ("Dino") Bratianu, brother of Vintila and Ion. Dino has been organizing among his friends, the great semifeudal landlords and industrialists of Rumania, a mass protest by their retainers against the National Peasant Party Government. Last week Dino and his Liberals threatened King Carol: unless he let them form...
...four years Afghanistan's hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked...
...codes relating to business discipline and voluntary cooperation of business groups, then it might truly be said that more substantial progress has been made toward economic reorganization than was possible in decades of anti-trust law philosophy. Controlled competition is certainly better liked by business men than ruthless and unregulated competition. Their adherence to codes shows that conclusively...