Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Charles J. Connick, America's foremost stained-glass artist. Connick maintains that colored glass has poetic qualities because of its constantly changing moods--moods which vary with every kind of weather and each position of the sun. Also, he says, distance changes the effect of the glass by softening harsh lines which are very obvious at short range...
Professor Elmer E. Nyberg, who teaches public speaking at New York University, revised and enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...
...Majesty. His visit would have been a complete frost had he not also had a pre-arranged date with Pope Pius XII. Vatican and Nazi relations have long been just about as unfriendly as they could be. They have been even more unpleasant than usual since the Nazis' harsh treatment of Catholics in conquered Poland. The Pope, moreover, has made it pretty clear that on the moral issue he is with the Allies...
...prisoners in concentration camps are worse than slaves. Their treatment is terrible . . indescribable. People are beaton, flogged to death. As average of two men died of harsh treatment every day in the camps I was in. I was fortunate to escape without harm except for over exposure to the rains and cold...
...smoke that lies thick and russet-green under the early sun. Because most St. Louis furnaces use Southern Illinois soft coal that burns cheaply, gaseously, smokily, because St. Louis has 160,000 chimneys, because fog rising from Mississippi River lowlands combines with smoke to create harsh, gritty, lung-injuring, bitter-tasting "smog," St. Louis' smoke problem is the worst in the U. S., costs the city and its home owners some $19,000,000 yearly for new wallpaper, laundering, artificial lighting, repainting...