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Word: unpleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the opinion of Alice Brady, star of "Lady Alone", plays dealing with Lesbianism and Homosexuality or similar distasteful subjects have no place on the American Stage. They treat of matters not only unpleasant in themselves, but made considerably more so by the crude manner in which the playwrights who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lesbianism and Homosexuality Have No Legitimate Place on Stage, Says Alice Brady--"Censorship" a Plot, She Charges | 3/12/1927 | See Source »

A time-honored but unpleasant feature of bullfighting, national sport of Spain, is that phase of the performance wherein a picador enters the ring, mounted on a horse of small intrinsic value, and cajoles the bull into attacking his horse after he (the picador) has dismounted. The horse, unarmed, nude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Puncture-Proof | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

As to the second point--the effect of the automobile on standards of scholarship, records at Princeton would seem to prove its validity. Nevertheless the ratio of low grades to the number of automobiles in a university is governed--as in all such proportions of virtue as opposed to temptation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MORE BUGGY RIDES | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

It is a sad thing that this unpleasant childish quarrel between Harvard and Princeton has not been allowed to cease. While official parties are not directly responsible for this newest utterance, it does show that they should exercise better supervision and keep such articles from print. From the outside, it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Vs. Princeton Again | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

There are times in the course of journalistic events, which come seldom perhaps to a metropolitan newspaper, more often to an undergraduate daily such as the Crimson, when it becomes an unpleasant duty to print all the news. The appearance of the latest recriminating statement by a former Harvard football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "--THAT'S FIT TO PRINT" | 1/28/1927 | See Source »

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