Word: unkinder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common and on the White House grounds shall my palfrey go to grass." Senator Johnson of California must, in his low moments, we are sure, turn to King Lear for comfort, quoting with feeling the old king's bitter cry, "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude...
...Sing Sing, Joseph Perez was happy. He thought he was a wealthy man and Sing Sing was his private estate. Unkind alienists pronounced him insane, unkind officials removed him to Dannemora State Hospital...
...Behind Office Doors" should have been a shorter picture by several hundred feet, for at times it drags intolerably. And one is very apt to leave the theatre with the unkind feeling that if one doesn't see Miss Astor until a year from next Michelmas one is likely to survive...
Pagliacci (Audio-Cinema Inc. & Fortune Gallo). Unkind people have said that Fortune Gallo does not like music much. He is a lively and busy executive, a bank director, concert manager, and, primarily, president and treasurer of the San Carlo Opera Company. Once when he was running an opera company in California he suggested to Composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo, who was working for him as a conductor, that Pagliacci would make a good movie. Leoncavallo refused to allow his masterpiece to be photographed unless the music went with it, but Gallo did not drop the idea. Last week, with characteristic enterprise...
...Princeton, N. J., Dr. van Dyke observed: "Who would be so unkind as to interrupt the bubbling joy of the author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...