Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central idea is that Joan Crawford, in the title role, will do absolutely anything for her daughter, who is a most unpleasant female. This, of course, leads Miss Crawford into all sorts of difficulties, but she never realizes to the bitter end that it all would be much neater and happier if she killed her daughter about a third of the way through the movie. The film's detectives might condemn her, but the audience would...
Never before had so many Palestinian Jews sympathized with the guerrillas. Even the sober Palestine Post affirmed that Jews had gone over "from defensive to offensive action." But Britain was bitter. Secretary Hall bluntly warned Palestine's Jews that they could expect no help from London if violence was to be their policy. Hall also announced that Palestine's mild-mannered High Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Gort, had resigned because of "ill health." Gort actually was ill, but his resignation increased the tension...
...airmen who have seen Tom Hardin in action around the world, this looked as if the bitter struggle in Latin America between Pan American Airways and TACA had reached Armageddon. It also looked as if Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which owns 30% of TACA stock, had decided that TACA's President Lowell Yerex needed help in winning the fight...
...month of October, while much-publicized peace talks were going on in Chungking, saw plenty of fighting between the Nationalists and Communists. The Communists made bitter and partly successful efforts to seize North China and wreck the Nationalist chance of successful occupation. A fortnight ago in northwest Shansi, bailiwick of aging "Model Governor" Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, a Communist concentration ambushed 10,000 of Marshal Yen's troops, and killed several thousand of them before they could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble...
...Promise), critic and editor whose influence is as great as his output is small. During the past six years, his bright literary monthly, Horizon, has become must reading for British intellectuals. In The Unquiet Grave, Critic Connolly lets his sizable group of followers down. He serves up a bitter salad of clever preciosity and engaging self-pity: a collection of notes about love, art and religion jotted down while he was on fire-watching duty. Many a highbrow will not see the woods of "Palinurus' " neurotic despair for the trees of his precise and sometimes witty prose...