Word: unkindnesses
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...stage and rouge becomes me, and I know I shall have to take to it if I consent to let you see me," wrote Miss Terry at the outset. Later she said: "I didn't like you when you first wrote to me. I thought you unkind and exceedingly stiff and prim." In 1896 when Shaw was beginning to be recognized as a playwright Miss Terry determined to call on him, but found he was in conference with Sir Henry Irving, her manager. She wrote: "Got no farther than the doormat. Heard your voice and skuddled home again, full...
...There are . . . several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
Harsh and unkind things have been said about the U. S. rulers of Haiti, Nicaragua, the Philippines. Samoan Islanders appreciate Captain Stephen Victor Graham, U. S. Governor of Eastern ("American") Samoa. Most appreciative of all are the inhabitants of Western ("British") Samoa, mandate of New Zealand, eight of whom were killed by New Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced...
Speaking of Col. Robert T. Oliver so disparagingly is also unkind. He it was that organized the Dental Corps and ranks today as its senior officer, has had years of service and during the World War functioned as Chief Dental Surgeon A.E.F., was awarded the D.S.M. from his country and we of the service both active and reserve, love and respect...
speakeasy scenes by george luks the president's unkind words on crime...