Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marching song for the California gold rush, $15.00 for "Old Folks at Home" because Foster let him sign himself as composer. "Old Folks at Home" started originally as "Way Down Upon de Pedee ribber." "Pedee" did not quite suit Foster. His brother suggested the Yazoo but that seemed harsh. Together they scoured the Atlas, picked on the Suwanee River in Florida. Foster's songs earned him $15,091, a rich amount for the times. But Foster drank up much of it and his wife had to get a job as a telegrapher. During his last years publishers were eager...
Never speak harsh words to your true love and husband...
...done better by Mary in Mary of Scotland. Of the story of murder and plotting, cloaks & swords, knife-faced Bothwell, caddish Darnley, crafty young Elizabeth, the snaggle-toothed pack of Scots Lords, he has made a poetic play. Designer Robert Edmond Jones has set it against six harsh, splendid sets. The first scene is of Mary's landing at Leith, a "cold, dour, villainous and dastardly" place. The second in England shows Elizabeth plotting to trick Mary into marrying Tudor-blooded Darnley, a Catholic, thus enraging the Protestant Lords and making it impossible for Mary ever to become Queen...
Helen Hayes, back to the stage from suffering in cinemas like Farewell to Arms, White Sister, gives to Mary little but these same brave, little girl accents. When she is on the stage in the last scene with Helen Menken, scrawny and harsh-voiced as Elizabeth, she is just a Hollywood actress. Philip Merivale has the height, the nose and the leanness for Bothwell, the only true man in Scotland, plays his part with praiseworthy capability...
...spite of this adamantine logic favoring the scheme, there is a danger that inter-house debating, like so many good and moral things, may be too delicate a flower for the harsh breath of existence, and so fall and wither away from lack of strength. The one iron and strychnine tonic to prevent this disaster is Interest. To quicken interest there is one sure formula, to capture fancy in the topic for debate. If the sponsors of the innovation act wisely, they will not choose exotic and ephemeral topics for their discussions, such as the intellectual status of the undergraduate...