Word: sadists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher who is said to be the author's particular mouthpiece. As such, he is a brilliantly garrulous person, for Huxley fairly...
...Last Stander Chang's army of 50,000 was put to absolute rout by Nationalist & Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi, who took 20,000 prisoners, and barely missed capturing Polygamist Chang as he fled to Manchuria. Rejoicing was general, for Chang Tsung-chang is brutal, a thief, a sadist who loves to lash his prisoners, an old-woman-beater and a young-woman-despoiler, a murderer, treacherous, outrageous, godless (TIME, March 7, 1927). But, as Columnist Brisbane remarked, Chang Tsung-chang has "verve"; and 20 wives and concubines have not rendered him "anemic." As such he looms a potent...
...wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual emerges from a type. The degeneracy of Daniel Pardway's issue-Gene into "a lout among gentleman, a gentleman among louts;" Bert into a floorwalker and window-dresser; Phoebe into a dreamy sadist, via sex-starvation; Freddie into a Princeton fop, proud wastrel and frayed dope fiend-seems mechanical, arbitrary. Like their father, the reader sees little of these children until it is time for them to appear in bars and brothels. Their Presbyterian mother dies young and their worldy-wise Kentucky step...
...Avenir declared: "Borah hates France with a sort of sadic frenzy." One is a sadist who takes pleasure, ipso facto, in inflicting pain. * Last week John Allen Sickel, Manhattan caviar dealer, bet his wife that he could name all the state capitals in the U. S. He won. Curious newspapermen wondered how many other citizens could duplicate Mr. Sickel's feat. TIME readers desirous this week of making bets similar to Mr. Sickel's may settle their bets by consulting p. 9, where all state capitals are listed...
...this story about high and low brownskins in Harlem and Atlantic City he shows Negroes wallowing in extreme depravity. He makes the comparatively chaste, intelligent heroine most unhappy. The hero, an ambitious graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is discouraged, disillusioned, thoroughly seduced and debauched by a saffron sadist who curses her race tor its jealousy of "rising" members and its hypocritical renunciation ot "nigger" instincts. There is no health in the book, no humor. There is feverish color, hot animalism, degradation. Whether he has told the truth or not-and the glossary appended shows that he at least knows...