Word: scunner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serge Prokofieff, famed Russian modernist composer, has a scunner against Boston. Seven years ago, when his Fourth Symphony was premièred there, supercilious Bostonians pooh-poohed it, critics even dared to suggest that it was written in too much of a hurry. Last week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds...
Johannes Gäntschow was the hard-bitten son of a hard-bitten father. His family of island farmers went back into pre-Christian times, and each generation was a little harder than the one before. Because his father took a scunner against him, Hannes was condemned to be educated. While his brothers and sisters were brought up to be farmers he learned the three R's with the local pastor. Christiane, the Count's daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away...
...faithful is Author Hanley to his apparently, humble thesis that only once or twice does he let his consciousness of higher triangles appear. When he does, his thesis does not appear so humble. Author Hanley's awkwardly compressed style (he seems to have a scunner against both definite and indefinite articles) is not calculated to please readers of any class: "He, being conscious of battery of stares from inquisitive people, only drew himself higher, proud, like greatest King in land." But Hanley's matter is meaty enough for those but the fullest...