Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least surprised person in England. When one of Max's mistresses dies on his hands, and he, at 60, goes off with another, that too seems reasonable enough. With World War II just around the corner, Dickie Savage has in fact grown up and become a bit blasé. Heritage does not say that creative people are exempt from the rules of ordinary decency. But Author West tries to understand them and suggests that even illegitimacy and neglect are not too much to endure for the rare privilege of growing up with genius...
...happy life in the Soviet Union, with a luxurious apartment in Moscow, a dacha in the country, a villa in the south, a talented wife, and a rag-taggle of pedigreed dogs. But in his latest novel, published in Russia last year, Ehrenburg let on that life is a bit of a bore and wondered whether it is worth living at all. Whereupon his fellow workers in literature were ready to tear him to pieces in a comradely way -until he confessed that it was all a mistake...
...Tear down the Fly Club's back yard and build a parking lot. So we do away with a bit of aesthetics. I'm not concerned with whether the Fly Club is willing...
...Club itself never dragged bottom. Its pace was fast, and its music well-liked. The Paris Herald summed up the group's tour as "a bit of very concentrated Americanism...
...only in the grooves of phono graph records, but their way with a song has been a lesson to every singer right down to Rosemary Clooney and Eartha Kitt. Lizzie is surviving handsomely, in person. Her voice has a brazen ring and a driving spirit; if she sings a bit flat here and there, she is always steady on the beat. Above all, she brings an au hentic echo of a past jazz age that the youngsters in her audience never knew and the oldtimers tearfully remember...