Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Informed of a decree that will prevent her appearing on any stage with actors who belong to the Actors' Equity Association, Jeanne Eagels was unregenerate. She called the verdict "ridiculous and unjust." She said: "No handful of actors for whom, with a few exceptions, I have no respect, can keep me from Broadway. I'll be back in a new play by Christmas...
...able Oscar W. Underwood, apologies for an unjust appellation...
...would be futile to deny that any criticism of the late experiment were unjust. If there have been ears to hear there have been complaints aplenty, and no good can come from the over-optimistic view that everything has been of the best in this best of all academic stunts. What Lampy has tried to do is to show this as a link in a chain of policy, the policy of withdrawing from active interest in the undergraduate element at Harvard to concentrate on the more esoteric functions of graduate study and research. Whether or not this is a sound...
...triumphs, this wearisome distortion by persons seldom qualified to speak, can be no great source of alarm. But concentrated on Smith College which has been singularly and blamelessly unfortunate in the associations gathered to its name, even with the loyal support of the alumnae, it does represent a most unjust and severe persecution...
...desire for enlightenment leads him to neglect a means of livelihood with the consequence that his family endures poverty and suffering and he earns for himself the cordial hatred of the whites wherever he goes. The final tragedy is striking and effective, leading through the stages of discouragement, unjust injury, a murder of desperation; and finally insanity to the sudden and merciless reprisal discharged through the rifles of the whites...