Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This might have been cause for some lingering hope; but immovable Mr. Molotov, in a final bitter blast, denounced the conference from stem to stern, and stated that his country would ignore the conference balloting when the Big Four came to grips on the final texts. It was inadmissible, Mr. Molotov said in effect, that the West should gang up on the Soviet group by a mere mustering of votes...
Zimmerman is not bitter about these experiences. He is too busy pondering what he feels is one of the most serious single problems of the day: the breakdown of the family. An increasing divorce rate and decreasing birth rate point to a breakdown in the family system. "Juvenal saw this happening," says Zimmerman, "when he wrote that the object of Roman men of the time was to make their neighbors' bedsprings creak." Seeing similar signs of breakdown today, the professor feels that the larger problem can be attacked best through an attempt to shore up the foundation of the family...
What's a Psychoneurosis? Later, because of the bitter feeling in Columbia, the trial had been moved to neighboring Lawrenceburg. But even in Lawrenceburg 736 talesmen had had to be questioned before twelve reasonably unprejudiced jurors could be found. During this process, Judge Ingram struck a snag. One talesman's medical certificate, which reported a psychoneurosis, set him frowning. After spelling the word out to himself, the Judge leaned forward and asked the man sympathetically: "Where does it hurt? What ails you?" One of the defense lawyers, a Negro, respectfully explained the term to the Judge...
Wrote bespectacled, courtly Ernest Betts (Daily Express), who can be as tough as molybdenum: "A great tragic performance. . . . She has an extraordinary range of expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said...
Like all the women in her family, the heroine (Barbara Hale) has had long and bitter experience with gambling men. She wants to make an honest living by running a bookstore, but her hard-earned nickels & dimes are frittered away by Grandpa (Frank Morgan), a lovable old scoundrel who cannot resist a pony or a poker game. When Barbara falls in love, her young man, of course, turns out to be another confirmed gambler (Robert Young...