Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Placed the Labor Government in a technical minority by passing 42 to 21 (with 674 absences and abstentions) a resolution which deplored Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's recognition of Soviet Russia (TIME, Nov. 18). The vote came after a sneering, sarcastic harang by the Earl of Birkenhead, bitter Moscow-phobe. "I am almost convinced by the Government's orators," said the bitter Earl, "that Soviet propaganda is either wholly innocuous or positively beneficial to Great Britain. Perhaps we ought to subsidize...
...junior year before I suffered any nervous breakdown, I wrote a pamphlet not the least bitter in tone and not complaining that athletics had treated me "shabbily." Nor am I bitter today, yet I still firmly and calmly believe that our University athletics contain many an abuse, and provide a rich field for far reaching reform...
Musical: FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, BITTER SWEET, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (for Johann Strauss's score?Die Fledermaus...
Since Barrie no longer writes, no one has succeeded like Mr. Milne in giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...
...revival of Lehar's The Merry Widow and in Madame Pompadour. She is now on her first visit to the U. S. Loud as was her reception, it was no louder than that accorded to U. S. Prima Donna Peggy Wood who sang the same role when Bitter Sweet opened in London last July. Ladies in Peggy Wood's audience tore off and flung to her their corsage bouquets...