Word: sadisme
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...sheerest sadism prevails throughout typical Balkan police stations. . . . Brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, children and parents: they are flogged by the police before one another's eyes upon the least pretense of obtaining information...
...indeed always well to the fore among the obscure but fashionable Parisian resorts of sophisticates who seek the dark, steep and tortuous streets ascending Montmartre when the hour is really too advanced for one to be seen elsewhere. As a novelty, La Petite Chaumiere combined the twin appeals of Sadism and Inversion, produced a "ballet" re-enacting the celebrated events of the recent Mesmin Case at Bombon. (TIME...