Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Beecham while a boy helped cure sick farm animals, found that the English peasants liked potent effects from their medicines. They even used horse remedies on themselves. So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap. Aloe is bitter and astringent, and is used under prescription for some cases of menstrual irregularities, chronic constipation, atonic dyspepsia and worms. It is apt to be intensely griping, an effect which Sir Joseph modified with his ginger -but not too much, for his customers wanted lively results. The pills themselves are lively. They bounce 14 inches...
Gallienne scored a success in this Ibsen play last year. A builder of churches, turned bitter against God, concentrates thereafter upon homes for human beings. Fired by the love of a young woman who has sought him out in his childless house, h.9 builds one of these homes with high towers reaching up to the clouds. The master, builder even climbs to the top of his own creation, unfurls the flag at its summit, vindicates his courage before detractors below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious...
Sandor Turai, mellow cynic, would rather his dear Albert retain a beautiful illusion than know the bitter truth. So he writes a play during the night, works the scandalous conversation into the dialogue, makes the two culprits act it before the houseparty guests, thus makes the naughty prima donna partner to a virtuous rehearsal in her chamber the night before. It was rather difficult to find some-thing " 'soft, round, velvety,'-and respectable." But Playwright Molnar is nothing if not ingenious. He has even given Johann Dwornits-chek, footman, a personality. Ralph Nairn plays the part. The entire...
...will oblivion's bitter cup be soon prepared for her. Having brooded over two generations, mostly girls, as Duty's very priestess, she was approached last winter by exceedingly ironic Biographer Thomas Beer. In The Mauve Decade he tore aside her veils of sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge...
...Philosopher Buermeyer's apartment and settled themselves to drink a bottle of grain alcohol. They mixed the fiery fluid with water, pursued recondite subjects. With each drink, a more hysterical note crept into Joseph Carson's voice. Jealousy gnawed. To shake it off, he blurted bitter taunts, taunts so childish that Prof. Buermeyer brushed them easily aside until he was bored, then dropped his woozy head and fell asleep. Infuriated, Philosopher Carson shouted at him to sit up and talk philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed the other and not even a shoe, which...