Word: browbeaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomats Browbeaten. Urging prompt acceptance of his pact "in principle" M. Litvinov said bluntly: "If you want Soviet orders you cannot object to Soviet exports. The Soviet Union is not the only country exporting raw materials. . . . The exports of Tsarist Russia were far greater than those of Soviet Russia, yet they were not condemned. . . . We are only starting out to regain our place in the world markets. ... I am here to offer a pledge that the Soviet Union will adhere to the principle of peaceful co-existence at this given stage of history...
...withering poetess, Katharine Cornell turns in an extraordinarily delicate and restrained piece of acting. So convincing was her drinking of a detested pitcher of porter, so stirring her defense of a browbeaten sister, so moving her portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...