Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey's words on behalf of the English Judiciary are a case in point when he proclaims: "No American judge of modern times is more widely known or more deeply venerated...
...that process by which the contents of the professor's notebook are transferred by means of the fountain pen to the student's notebook without passing through the mind of either," and recently Mr. H.G. Wells declared. "There is no need whatever for any one ever to suffer or inflict an ordinary course of lectures again...
CONFESSIONS OF ZENO-Italo Svevo-Knopf ($3). Few authors would dare inflict on their readers such a queer bird as Zeno. Unclassifiable in any pigeonhole of good citizenry or good character, he is an eccentric fellow altogether, disliked even by his psychoanalyst. The plan of the book is simple but ingenious: Zeno's doctor persuades him to write his auto-biography as an exercise in analysis: when Zeno breaks with him before the treatment is complete, the doctor, in revenge, publishes Zeno's confessions...
...they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...
...Doorn advanced in a potent sentence, well worth pondering: "The intercession of the crucified Lord, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,' is not intended for the Jewish leaders but for the poor German legion aries, who, acting under the orders of their superiors, must inflict dire suffering upon the Lord...