Word: mercilessly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington's dignity and Dr. Franklin's ingenuity inspired Lamb's admiration. But he detests the hypocrisy of Demagogue John Hancock and his shyster lawyer Sam Adams, the "moral obliquity" of Boston's pious, greedy merchants...
...Luftwaffe continued to come over in short nuisance raids and careful military attacks during the day, and in long merciless strangulation by night, Britain's leaders grew more & more concerned about the discomfort and discontent of little people. If anyone could hold their confidence, it was old Winnie. His fond grip on them grew every hour. Rich and poor alike paid him honor. Britain felt that it was cornered, but that Winnie would find a fence to climb over and a mine to hide...
...record as saying what is going on in Europe is none of our busi ness, then we might as well fold up." Minnesota's Republicans forthwith presented Mr. Willkie with his first delegates. ^ Wrote Editor Felix Morley in the Washington Post: "Neutrality has no meaning when such a merciless military machine is in full operation. . . . No country can possibly be indifferent ... all those not actually at war, or poised to strike at the strategic moment, are preparing to fight for their independence...
...shall see me come out strong." So wrote, not perverse Jonathan Swift to his 18th-Century Stella, but moonstruck, middle-aged George Bernard Shaw to the lovely Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Year after year, in a stream extending from the '90s till long after the war, the most merciless of scoffers wrote the lady the most extravagant of love letters (as he also did to Actress Ellen Terry). To her the scoffer even babbled baby talk. For her he wrote Pygmalion. Against her, even when she tacked on her own ending to the play, he was powerless. When Beatrice Stella...
Count Ciano made his position unassailably strong when he got a rough-&-tumble pal of Ethiopian days, much-decorated Ettore Muti, appointed to Starace's job. Muti looks like a handsome U. S. gangster, and, not being too quick of brain or tongue, is the subject of merciless punning (muto = dumb). Last week Signor Muti had a gold medal pinned on his chest by Il Duce for having carried out 160 admirable bombing raids during the Spanish campaign...