an indecence of barbarity

the Examinants appear before them, in classes of ſix at a time, and each class shall be examined […]

He has scarcely time wishfully to choose the prettiest one of the nurses who look curiously down from the windows above when he glides, still wormish, underneath a portcullis, which clangs behind him like the clang of doom, and the elevator slowly ascends.

Businesscrats had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.