Word: bittersweet
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...great houses on Beacon Hill would-barring unexpected blackout-be alight from top to bottom, with a candle in every window. There would be shiny holly wreaths tied with red ribbon on the doors, milk-white mistletoe berries over the living-room entrance, clusters of bayberry and bittersweet over the stockings on the mantel. Small children in fuzzy pajamas would be led unwillingly to bed, while teen-age brothers & sisters paraded stiffly in first Tuxedos and long dresses, ready to sweep off to Christmas Eve dances...
...show at the U.T. may be sweet to the nice old lady from Des Moines, but to someone in the midst of preparation for an Ec or Physics exam,--it is bittersweet. Everyone is wildly happy through reel after reel. Then a tinge of dewey-eyed sadness and the molasses rolls up and down the aisles in great gooey gobs. The whole thing ought to give even the mildest cynic indigestion for weeks...
...Bittersweet" is full of lilting Noel Coward tunes and Jeanette MacDonald's red hair. The plot is concerned chiefly with the gay, carefree life of Old Vienna, with two people awfully, awfully, desperately in love, and genius starving in a garret. Nothing is notably different from any other picture of that type and about the best that can be said for it is an acceptable encore of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. And there will probably be people who will still be clapping for another...
...interrelated as the roots of a bush. Latest offshoot, The Captain's Wife, is not part of her big novel-in-progress, The Mirror in Darkness, but it shares some of the same characters. And they, like all the berries on Storm Jameson's bush, are as bittersweet as ever...
Showmanship on the Coward scale is almost big business. To handle the money end of his affairs he has headquarters in London, where he is called "The Great White Father," another in Manhattan's RKO Building, where there is a photomural of a scene from his Bittersweet. In each of these places, head man is a tall (6 ft.), graceful Yaleman (1922) of 37-John C. Wilson of Trenton, N. J. After college he escaped briefly from Wall Street when given a small part in a road company of Polly Preferred. Back in trade, he got Noel Coward...