Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It was a long, long letter. It harked back to the Treaty of Paris in 1899, under which Puerto Rico came from Spain to the U. S. It reminded Puerto Ricans that the U. S. never promised to make the island an independent state. It reminded Puerto Ricans what Puerto...
After the show was over, there was an unpleasant aftermath of surreptitious doings which further emphasized the mercenary aspect of dog shows. Someone administered a dose of arsenic to Hi-Point Monoplane, prize collie puppy, owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane...
Great banks have been considering reducing wages. Suggesting in the current issue of the American Bankers Association Journal that banks cut interest rates on deposits, President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York (greatest bank in the U. S.; deposits: $1,275,041,000) writes: "While...
If enthusiastic sentiments are sincere nothing is lost and very likely something's gained, since insight into undergraduate tastes is interesting if nothing else. What seduces the young reviewer is the attitude and opinions of his olders. For a youthful critic to enter into a rhapsody over "The Bridge of...
"Jazz is nothing but a march tune, something used more than 2000 years ago, with occasional syncopations thrown in, played on unpleasant instruments, as insipid saxaphone, harsh trombones and trumpets, and ratting drums," was the opinion of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Symphony concerts in Boston this week, as...