Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many a Russian, Rachmaninoff had been fascinated by the weird poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Before the War he determined to work into a symphony Poe's tinkling sleigh bells, golden marriage bells, frightened alarm bells and bitter, iron-tongued dirge bells. As text he used Russian Poet Constantin Balmont's version of Poe's second most famous poem, completed the work...
Boosters of Arizona as a health resort were last week obliged to swallow a bitter purge compounded for them by Field Director Carl Edward Buck of the American Public Health Association. Reported Dr. Buck, after surveying the State's health ambitions and failings: "In every single one of the largely or partially preventable causes of death, Arizona has a much higher rate, in some instances three or even four times higher, than the country as a whole." Arizona's remarkable categories of death: Infant and maternal mortality, tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, diarrhea and enteritis, motor accidents...
...Bitter and frequent is the complaint that the Securities & Exchange Commission tends to try its cases in newspapers before they are tried in courts. A crackdown from SEC begins with published charges based on what SEC "has reason to believe and does believe." Invariably the crackdown makes headlines, while the routine denial of the unhappy crack-downee is buried at the bottom of the column. Particularly irritated by this procedure because the firm was just getting on its feet after a severe Depression deflation was Otis & Co. Cyrus ("The Great") Eaton's Cleveland banking house which was charged last...
...scandal involving the extention division of the University. A year later a fight in the athletic department split alumni and others into two embattled factions. His opponents charge that through Frank's neglect and vacillation the sparks struck by incipient friction have too often blazed into long and bitter strife...
Much of the play is brash and bitter. Much of it is moving-notably the scene wherein Mary tries to explain to her little daughter (Charita Bauer) how it is that Mother and Daddy can fall out of love. All of the play has sharp theatrical impact. A vast improvement on the form shown last year in her melodrama Abide With Me, Clare Boothe's The Women was received by first audiences with grateful mirth. Clever of line and deft of pace, The Women is packed with cracks which will doubtless be batted back & forth across Manhattan dinner tables...