Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detective story is the same as that of any other novel, except that the elements of conflict and struggle, always present, are here emphasized with much of the delicacy of a steam riveter. For the subtle play of intelligence on intelligence; the struggle of a finite humanity against the merciless irony of nature, agreeably substituted the somewhat less ethereal play of nitroglycerine on steel-the writhing of infinite intellect in mortal combat with invincible guile...
...arguments are surpassed by those of nobody at the entire American Bar. He is in a class with men like John W. Davis, Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge of the law, a decided talent for convincing logical oratory, merciless in its precision and directness. He has received honorary degrees from Yale, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Pittsburgh. In addition to being a lawyer and statesman, Senator Pepper is also the author of several legal treatises of merit, and is actively interested in athletics, particularly baseball...
...done. The boat race must be rowed today and the baseball game must be played tomorrow. The sky has been searched with powerful telescopes but not a cloud has been seen to break the viciously brazen arch of the heavens. Yet even if the sun continues its merciless glare and the asphalt becomes a sea of tar, the shadows of Harvard rooters will throng to the arenas of sport to cheer on their teoms. . . . "The rest is silence...
Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
...Catskill Dutch' presents a picture rather than a problem. It gives a very life-like representation of certain sides of life in a remote district where men and women live under the rule of the Bible interpreted by a strict and merciless consistory, with the spirit of Calvin in the atmosphere of America...