Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salomé, his third opera, first produced in 1905, was a literal sensation. Because of the realistic power with which the composer treated the theme, for which he chose Oscar Wilde's necrophilistic version, U. S. presentations were banned for some time after the first Metropolitan hearing in Manhattan...
And then at last some smart feller on the Lampoon found the way out. He'd make it so unpleasant for Princeton to come up to Cambridge to play football that the Tigers would sever relations of their own accord, avoiding Harvard the embarrassment.
As may be imagined, our day had been a bit lively, so we pitched camp early in a little hollow and attempted to shake a bit of dust from our effects. We were quite ready for peace and quiet in large doses, but one of our camels commenced to gargle...
"1912 was also the year of the unpleasant 'Marconi scandal,' in which I had no part. The British Postoffice approved a tender of my British company to build stations for its use. Godfrey Isaacs, manager of both my British and American companies, advised his brother Rufus, then Attorney...
Nevertheless, the limitations of cafeteria, eating have become increasingly apparent. Overcrowding and hurrying are as unpleasant as gloom. Convenient, it must be admitted, the cafeterias remain. Their apparent variety of food, ingeniously set forth on placards, is less appealing and more monotonous after more familiar acquaintance, and in many cafeterias...