Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like the family piecebag, they are of all colors and patterns. There are songs of sailors, of miners, of lumberjacks, of loggers, of hobos, of prisoners and pick & shovel men, of washerwomen, bandits and railroad gangs. They tell stories, of pioneer memories, of the Mexican border, the "big, brutal cities," the Southern mountains, of five different wars. This one came from a Santa Fe buckaroo, that one from the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mr. Sandburg places them all, gives in his thumbnail introductions vivid pictures of the times and the people that produced them. "Drivin' Steel" comes from the mountaineers...
...clippings told of brutal, better days when Griffo fought four champions, George Dixon, Kid Lavigne, Jack McAuliffe, Joe Gans. Griffo never met a better fighter except alcohol. On the day of his fight with Dixon for the featherweight championship (Griffo weighed 120) he disappeared; was snatched out of a saloon late in the afternoon; boiled out in a Turkish bath; held Dixon to a desperate draw...
...first story, "The Undefeated," tells of a pathetic, broken-down toreador. In "Fifty Grand," which lately brightened the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, there is a brutal convincing picture of the prize-ring in these days of the million dollar gate...
...past. The Ben Jonson we have here is a lovable, disgusting, Falstaffian figure who drinks, slops, fights, sweats, writes lovely lyrics. One hundred and fifty-eight well-printed pages suffice to give his life in its entirety. If the style is not so robust as Jonson, the conception is brutal enough. Jonson is rare, rare as a century plant; rare also as a beefsteak. Author Steele, aged 20, lately studied under Professor John Erskine,* of Columbia University. Lectures by Professor Erskine inspired the writing of the Jonson book, the author says...
...story is told of two daughters, one frozen by the memories of a deceased brutal father; the other warmed by the hot blood of his inheritance. The latter increases the world's population by one surreptitiously but serenely. The former is unnaturally intent on nothing but good works. Both, finally, are attracted by an aggressive labor leader. Miss Ferguson is lovely but not always lucid as the looser sister. The best performance of the play is Nance O'Neil's. She portrays the mother, bloody but unbowed after many years of connubial fireworks with the barbaric father...