Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets, 42, returning to Broadway with a bitter satire on Hollywood (The Big Knife) after seven profitable years among the moviemakers, tried to explain the creative urge: "What gets you all hot about a play? I don't know. A moment of pique, a bellyache, a week of exaltation. Who knows? ... I think most of us live like dogs-in the good sense. We are moved by appetites, helter-skelter, a run here, a sniff there. Like animals...
...London widower (Melvyn Douglas) falls in love with a sympathetic, war-weary A.T.S. girl (Phyllis Calvert). His son (Philip Friend), missing in action for several years, turns up wounded, bitter and a virtual stranger to the father. Son turns for understanding-and eventually for love-to father's fiancee. Before father can marry the girl, everyone gets into such a self-sacrificial mood that son's postwar maladjustment dissipates itself in noble dialogue...
...story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration Director, but few Argentines...
...acid test facing Prime Minister St. Laurent was the general election expected some time this year. Last week Louis St. Laurent received notice that the struggle would be bitter and hard-fought. In a by-election in the Quebec riding of Nicolet-Yamaska, his Liberal Party candidate was beaten in a surprise turnover by a Progressive Conservative (Tory...
Success had had its bitter side for little Willie Pep. As fancy a featherweight as ever tied on gloves, he won so many fights (134 against one defeat) that home-town Hartford, Conn, took him for granted. Willie grew cocky and careless. Result: last October he was knocked out cold by Challenger Sandy Saddler. Willie lost his featherweight crown, but in defeat Hartford began to rally round him and he became a town hero on a comeback trail. The home folks bellowed for a return engagement...