Word: shrewish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Petruchio made up as a cowboy, with leather chaps and cerise shift, sporting a long cattle whip, starts his tactics of taming the shrewish Katherina, by twining the whip about the shoulders of the screaming flapper, as he sings...
...These shrewish scoldings," began Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania...
...finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader's sympathy is meant to go to crippled, homely, honest Elena. But Elena is more shrewish than shrewd. Her experiments with new religions are wan and woeful. The backgrounds -Manhattan, Italy, unnamed places -are nebulously uninteresting, taking the edge off such intensity as Authoress MacConnell and her characters may possess. A ripe theme and much good characterization go to waste through fireless cooking...
...taming of shrewish Mr. Mencken...
This is all by way of launching a compliment at the editors of the American Mercury for the use they are making of newspaper men. It is also by way of calling your attention to the taming of the shrewish Mr. Mencken. For twenty years Mr. Mencken has jeered, snorted and chortled at the American newspaper man. Now he is, with the cooperation of Mr. Nathan, editing the best of current magazines and depending upon newspaper men for a large part of his copy...