Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Persuader. In Chicago, Merlin W. Griffith and his family of eight went to court with a bitter complaint: his landlord, trying to get him to move, was using a twelve-piece band in the small hours of the night...
...politics and economics, with no intent to be funny. It also carries serious reviews of the movies, theater and books-but with a difference. Says Editor Knox: "The New Yorker is so scornful of everything. Nothing is quite good enough in their eyes. We try not to be too bitter or unkind...
...suggested coalition with the Communists, men like Chen were shocked (although Chen has been too correct to say so). To Marshall and other Americans Communism still seems a distant threat. Chen and his friends have had the Reds breathing down their necks for 20 years. It has been war, bitter, open, accepted. Nationalist Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei accepts the fact of war so completely that he can say: "I don't like it, but I don't blame the Communists for tearing up the railroads." And Chen Li-fu held the following icy dialogue with Communist Leader...
...success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat from a customer who said the magazine stank. (Right, said the editor; it was that new black ink. Printed fine, smelled bad. The Post wouldn't offend again...
...becoming a victim of technocracy-"merely a stooge for mechanical contraptions." But he solved that problem by insinuating himself into the telecast. Because he has to remain an offstage voice and seldom appears on the screen, he devised such tricks as calling for a cup of coffee on a bitter day and munching peanuts audibly at a ball game...