Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being kept at a safe distance from the hula dancers and educated for the law. Nifty breaks off with his girl-in order to keep his son from finding out the state of affairs which prevails back-stage; and the girl takes her revenge, which is a bitter...
...pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into a swarm of ugly, writhing life, sticky and sordid, grimy with bitter wisecracks and cruelly shot through with flashes of vagrant, tender beauty...
Never was more melodrama swept between two covers and seldom was it swept so well. Author Dehan's style is his fortune. Tumultuous, it confuses at first, until the long rhythms of a splendid imagination become apparent. Then, sustained overtones rise above the narrative?the bitter self-sufficiency of a betrayed Jew; the long-suffering humanity of a French monk in the wilderness; the earthy mysticism of aborigines who talk from hill to hill with smoke columns, declare war with muttering drums and ululate for a dying god when the sun is eclipsed...
...courtiers of Confucius, men with bitter yellow faces blackly stitched into acute angles, invented a game. They would stand, fantastically foppish in long sleeves and ivory silk, silent on the shiny green leather of China turf, each holding in his hand a great smooth ball of polished wood. It was a picture in suave bright colors infused with a slow and graceful motion. There would be a swish of light brilliance above the lawn, a brush of spinning wood on grass, a far-away microscopically delicate click as wood touched porcelain. The game was first to pitch balls into...
Frank X. Shields is National Junior Tennis Champion. Shields, New York youth, ploughed through five bitter sets at Forest Hills, L. I., to win 7-5, 6-8, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4, from Julius Seligson, also New York. Shields was tired but happy. Last winter he was beaten for the Indoor Junior championship by this same Seligson...