Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berle. Through the years, hard-working Comic Berle drove himself so overbearingly to fulfill his destiny that many a bitter show-business colleague came to regard him as a gag-stealing braggart. Now, having conquered at last, Milton seems to be living down his bad reputation. Success agrees with him. Says George Jessel: "He doesn't have to try so hard now, and so he's not so liable to be stepping on other people's toes." Once damned by many who had to work with him on the way up, he now has the respect...
...suspended the Giants' bad-tempered manager as a "preventive" not a "punitive action." The evidence assembled against Durocher had been "contradictory" and he was lifting the four-day suspension...
What went wrong in China? The CRIMSON said we backed the wrong people, the big bad "warlords and bankers," whose utter inefficiency and lack of morale spelled defeat...
...CRIMSON'S accusation that we backed the wrong people "the warlords and bankers" is little short of an irresponsible way of ducking the whole issue. The issue was not one of backing pure good against pure bad, nor one of choosing exactly what kind of government we would like to aid. The issue was which of two sides to help. In China, the choice was between the National Government and the Communists. The CRIMSON implicitly chose a third--the nice middle-of-the-road liberals who, unfortunately, are unable to repeal the law of polarization, and therefore find it easier...
Arthur Shercliff, the producer, started the evening with an apology for not being Sir Rupert himself. This was a bad beginning. Everyone feels awe-struck by the achievements of that great man, but most expressions of humility are more justified than they were last night...