Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...older of the two-told her life story; this week appears Actress Hayes's. It is told, not by 39-year-old Helen herself, but in a series of letters from her 63-year-old mother to her ten-year-old daughter.* For the reader who can grit his teeth against all Grandma's "Mary darlings" and "Mary sweets," and survive all her gushing over Helen, the method has its points. It saves Helen from having to blow her own horn, and it makes for a fairly frank, highly chatty tone...
...Johnson. A fabulous night owl, he prowls from 52nd Street's 21 to 57th Street's musical hangouts followed by an army of press agents, newsmen, vaudevillians and cinemactors, puts on high-powered conversational exhibitions with his good friend Playwright Sam Behrman, drops pearls of grit-edged humor for all who will listen...