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...horridly ill-mannered, thoroughly selfish, slothfully inclined person . . . smugly superior and insufferably condescending. . . . By your own account you come near . . . being a rotter...
Letters to Lucerne (by Fritz Rotter & Allen Vincent; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). War, via letters from home, comes to a small Swiss boarding school, peopled with girls of many nationalities. The junior misses, the most attractive part of the play (see p. 54), are nice but inadequate when they try to cope with worldwide catastrophe...
...indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent little brother Bertie. He owes all he has to his father, but he tries to crush the rugged old man and build his own fortune on the ruins. Thus in this...
...Joseph S. Isoman, John S. Kelly, Ben D. Kimpel, Edward O. Miller, James G. Miller, Lionel F. Miller, Jr., Edmund S. Morgan, Laird M. Ogle, John A. O' Keofe, Thomas L. Perry, Jr., Gerard J. Piel, Melvin Richter, Arthur M. Rosenbloom, Leonard J. Rosenfeld, Simon M. Rosenfield, Paul T. Rotter, Williah E. Rowley, Wheeler Sammons, Jr., Joseph Share, Robert F. Sharp, Joseph A. Sherrard, Jr., Philip A. Straus, Herbert Tabor, Cheves T. Walling, Ira A. Watson, Harold T. White, Jr., Harold T. White, Jr., John W. Whittlesey, Summer Willard, Eugene C. Worman...
...FEEL myself rise to a tremendous pitch of emotion as I sense that in a moment, a shallow second, the mood of exaltation and solitude will burst, and I shall think of Economics, thinner (much better than the stew), work, Mr. Rotter, and the awful wretchedness...