Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman was thankful he could supervise those White House repairs to the bitter end. Jim Cronin was thankful the Yalies wouldn't be back until 1960. 22-year-old age group
...still better things are ahead for the people who had trouble following the ball on the basic plays that Valpey found time to install this season. When the sophomores who got their first bitter lessons at Ithaca and Princeton have been around for another couple of seasons, then Art Valpey may be able to say more each week than "We're making progress; we're still on fundamentals." That might be the reason that seven (7) scouts from Cornell spent last Saturday in the Stadium thinking about next October...
...Gordon) is about a group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone call to Bernard Baruch...
Despite the first bitter chill Soldiers Field has felt all season, Art Valpey gent the varsity football squad through a three-and-a-half-hour workout yesterday which featured long offensive and defensive scrimmages. After it was all over, however, Valpey was disappointed with the results...
...never in the flesh. President Truman was in Missouri, out of TV range, and Governor Dewey's Manhattan suite was placed off limits by the secret service men who had come up from Washington to guard the next President. As interviewees, that left Candidate Henry Wallace (who looked bitter and pompous), Candidate Norman Thomas (chipper and witty) and major & minor party officials...