Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Russell's The Passion Vine, is of the daughter of a South Sea missionary, starving for love. For want of anything better, she becomes involved with a young native chieftain and starts to elope with him. He carries her down a waterfall-a thrilling scene. At the bottom, they find that the boats they had expected to find have been taken. He leaves her to get others. A storm comes up. She feels that she is committing an error, and crawls back. The native kills a brutal trader to whom her father was going to marry...
...York Times pointed out last Sunday, there must be certain subtleties of method. Mr. Stransky as conductor seems to give the clue. This musician recently re-signed or was "forced" out of the conductorship of the Philharmonic -both explanations were given. The new movement seems at bottom a process of providing him with an orchestra. Mr. Stransky is a persuasive personality and has a devoted following among the highly placed. There may be angels in this new heaven. And it may be that the musicians of the cooperative enter- prise will practice cooperation by way of dividing among themselves donations...
...brilliant yellow journal like the New York American will play the story for all it is worth from every angle. Editorially committed to the adulation of the common man (the "Mr. Dubb" of its cartoons), it commercializes the fact that the vice of riches lay at the bottom of the tragedy. It breaks through the tacit and decent understanding between " respectable" papers whereby Mr, Mitchell's family was shielded and exposes him with picture and headlines, thus: " Here is 'Marshall' unmasked. The respected John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, New York and Boston clubdom, a member by marriage...
...must decide for one self. But selecting an apple from the sideboard is far different from feeling for one in the bottom of a barrel. When a man understands the merits and peculiarities of several professions, he may decide which he considers most suitable for himself. If he lacks this information, he cannot be said to decide. His occupation becomes a matter of chance. And Fortune, they say is blind...
Upon the time honored rock bottom of caste distinctions and the pride of the landed aristocracy Mr. Galsworthy has reared a solid superstructure of melodrama in the "Eldest Son", well constructed, as might be expected from the authorship, and free to a large degree from the usual Galsworthy flair...