Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hazing" affair at Trinity College, if correctly reported, does seem to have altogether overstepped the bounds of fairness, not to say of humanity. Such actions can be called nothing less than brutal; and the sooner the college press states in plain terms the character of the deed, and its opinion of such actions, the sooner will it become no longer a matter of laughter among college men for barbarous tortures, bullying, and branding of arms to be resorted to as a means of vengeance by irate upper class men. There has been a time when hazing was a harmless...
...work and giving some account of the victims "impaled like flies" who are now often remembered solely on this account. The concluding books are less personal than the first and the work ends with a very fine apostrophe. The coarse grossness of the Dunciad illustrates well the brutal spirit and thin polish of the century. After alluding to the pseudo-classical spirit that pervaded continental and English literature after the renaissance, Mr. Perry mentioned some of the questions that agitated the creeds of the day and led up to the state of mind in which Pope composed his "Essay...
...imagine what feelings I experienced. All that impotent rage and hate mingled with love, all that blighted hope and the consciousness of personal injury combined with everlasting affection, could put into the heart of mortal man was depicted in my countenance. I fell at the feet of the brutal wild man, and implored him to restore me to my Linda. "Linda," said he, - his face wore a far-away, dreamy expression; his heart beat violently against his waistcoat pocket, and caused his watch-chain to swing to and fro, - "Linda," said he; then suddenly recollecting himself...
...Harvard's team were knocked up, and their places taken by substitutes, they were mean enough to say it was "luck," and "they played as good a game as we did." For my part, I could not see that their rushers did any thing but commit a series of brutal assaults upon our men, who are deserving of great credit for the plucky manner in which they withstood the unwarranted attacks...
...slowly mounted the scaffold I looked down over the vast crowd beneath, if I might perhaps see one friendly face. But though I scanned all closely, I saw but an expression of eager, brutal expectation. All eyes were fixed on me, but in not one did I meet a glance of sympathy; their look was as that of a bloodthirsty beast gloating over its victim. I shuddered slightly, and turned my head away. Yet I felt strangely calm and composed. I looked at the headsman with a sort of curiosity and interest; he had not his mask...