Word: harsh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Week after week suave Mr. Hays has sought to whittle down these harsh terms, but the Commission, backed by Minister of Instruction Edouard Herriot, has remained obstinate. Finally last week Cinema Censor Hays let his anger mount and began to threaten. He announced that he had booked passage for the U. S., and that upon the day he sailed the U. S. film industry would suspend all business in the French market. The potency of this threat lay in the fact that France does not yet produce sufficient cinema dramas to supply even one-third of her own demand. Therefore...
...published in the Daily Worker, David Gordon, a student at the University of Wisconsin, has been released. His comparison of the American business world with a house of ill-fame was certainly in poor taste; but few who know the circumstances would consider the young poet deserving of so harsh a punishment. He was born in Russia, and has been raised in sections of New York City where the tenets of communism sway the public mind and make the more spirited active revolutionists. A better citizen and probably a better poet will result from the leniency of the Parole Commission...
...harsh sentence of the court might be construed as giving grounds for suspicion that the judges of the case sought to punish him not for the moral qualities of this, one of the first fruit from his pen, but for his revolutionary proclivities in general. This youngster in the field of literature was indeed beginning to regard himself as a martyr, so unjust did he feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding...
...Dogs is indeed produced according to the author's recipe. Its somewhat antiquated use of soliloquy and its droning tragedy, unencumbered by contemporary fashions in plot construction, make it a sour entertainment for play-goers drilled in a less difficult tradition. Its sadness is serious and harsh and not the relaxative kind old women...
Both to harry Standard Oil on the flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that...