Word: sadism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...torturing little children. Upon his release a little boy was cruelly murdered, then a little girl. On April 22, 1874 Horace Miller, 10, was found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison to pay a penalty not yet finished. A violent prisoner, always attempting escape, he was moved to Concord in 1880 in chains and handcuffs, was returned...
...candidates who were the beneficiaries of this revolt of the voters against government which had ceased to be civilized and politics which was nothing more than rapine, grand larceny, degeneracy, sadism, privileged murder and systemized extortion, must be touched in the head if they think that the April election was merely a fleeting episode in the experience cf credulous or apathetic voters and that every one is willing to forget it and welcome all the blacklegs back at the table...
...word vice in the historically great tradition of U. S. Puritanism. Actually the word is simply a general term signifying the opposite of virtue. If habitual kindness is a virtue, then habitual unkindness is a vice. For all specific forms of vice, there are specific words: thus, profligacy, drunkenness, sadism, cannibalism, gluttony, venery, adultery, laziness, mendacity, cupidity...
...extremely probable that sadistically inclined perverts may be aroused to undesirable activities by such a display in a public place. . . ." When newsgatherers approached him, John Sumner enlarged upon his diatribe: "Sadism is a form of sexualism. This painting is very apt to arouse sadistic impulses. Also it is placed where children can see it. . . . If it were prosecutable, I think there should be prosecution and I feel that the law should be interpreted to cover such things...
...acts, her will is powerless to deter her from courses of conduct that have their roots in her emotional abnormality," glibly states her lawyer in his plea for elemency. It is said that the defence of young Hickman will be virtually the same, in his instance the abnormality being sadism. These two cases, together with the shocking acquittal of bootlegger Remus, seem a perfect justification of Governor Smith's plan for a board of criminologists and psychiatrists who might make disposal of all convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing scientific problems from the hands of ignorant juries...