Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then Representatives Montague of Virginia, Moore of Ohio, Graham of Pennsylvania, replied with logic, bantering, merciless. Impeachment, they said, was a formal accusation, not a conviction. And it is the duty of the House to impeach?i.e., formally accuse?any official who they have sufficient reason to believe has not lived up to the standards of his office. Crass ignorance may be ground for impeachment, or drunkenness or indecent conduct. Improper use of influence should certainly result in impeachment. Ungrammatical Representative Reed of Illinois suggested to the House that "if a lot of you people were to be impeached...
...concealed- the "bigwigs" of the University's colleges were afraid of being nudged and bunted by one another's reputations and personalities if brought to such close quarters. With the option's expiration imminent, London alumni conducted dignified propaganda; London students-visualizing escape from "the merciless, grasping Bloomsbury landladies" into cloistered dormitories like those at Oxford and Cambridge-prepared a "rag" (street demonstration savoring of humor and earnestness...
Last week idlers in Florida beheld what is now known as "a protracted assassination." The weapon: a smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He dealt his blows delicately, at infrequent intervals, seeming to select moments when he could most bitterly annoy his prey. His prey: a chunky, blond youth with a grim but cheerful smile...
GLASS HOUSES?Eleanor Gizycka?Minion, Balch ($2). Senators have fun. Particularly the big he-ones from unshackled western states. This book leaves no doubt of it. They are pursued even in their grave assembly room by panting Washington women with devastating toilets and merciless divan technique. Second only to senators in desirability are titled young attaches at the embassies. For one of these a Washington flapper will do unvirtuously anything...
...Manhattan. Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, Featherweight Champion of the World, offered a merciless display of fistic pyrotechnics upon the body of an ron-jawed, rock-gutted youth from New Orleans, one William Kennedy. For twelve rounds Kennedy kept coming in, jerking his head from side to side under the champion's sharpshooting, his red eyes glazed and almost sightless under the fire of the electric torches; kept coming in, while Kaplan, irritated by his resistance, clubbed remorseless blows to the body, sent jabs flickering to his bloody mouth: kept coming in. . . At the end of the fight, Kennedy was still...