Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monetary venality and explosive blasphemy. Author McNally has studied the character of Wagner with an unblinded eye, makes full allowances for the poetic moral license commonly granted artists. The McNally-Lawson Wagner states the morality of an artist very clearly when he confesses that he has been mean, selfish, harsh, unfaithful, ungrateful; but, he says, he has learned his trade so well that no one in the world can teach him anything about music, and he has never allowed the most egregious hardships and humiliations to swerve him from his job of composing great music...
...almost inaudible whine, fainter than a mosquito, rose to my ears from the back axle. Only harsh critics would have heard...
...naturalist. One of the two November choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Audubon is beautifully illustrated with twelve color plates, presents a romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs and torment cats, while sparrows look on in excitement', enchanted Audubon. There he conceived his great and precious folios of the Birds of America...
...first chapter of this harsh and hair-raising little book, Author Bruce Winton Knight, professor of economics at Dartmouth, gravely announces his argument: "Thus far in human history no formula has proved equal to the task of preventing more or less extended periods of peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...
...musical instrument shall be played upon and no singing shall be allowed except between one o'clock in the afternoon and ten o'clock in the evening. No boisterous music or playing upon drums, or other harsh instruments, shall be allowed at any time...