Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"On the human side poverty is the rule and actual misery only too frequent among musicians. On the artistic side the activities of concert halls and operas, filled as they are with memories of past glories, force upon the observer the unpleasant truth that art is hopelessly dependent upon economic...
A thick figure in a leather jacket and goggles climbed out of the cockpit of a an airplane. "Where am I?" he demanded, viewing with suspicion the brown terrain, the fog-filled, dingy air. "Half a mile from London, sir," replied the pilot courteously. Upon this information, the goggled person...
Fortnight ago, France, debt-bitter, war-proud, sent to President Coolidge an unpleasant letter demanding debt-sympathy. The letter was written by her 85-year-old "Tiger" Clemenceau's august furious own hand. It was unofficial, all the more notable. Spokesman Coolidge, vexed, shrewd, presumably saw that an emotional...
Last week Colonel Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime member of the Ohio Gang, now personal researcher for the Big White President, continued his critical observations from aboard the Filipino- financed Bustamente (TIME, July 26, et seq.). Slowly the little steamer pushed through hundreds of emerald islets in a turquoise sea beneath...
It was a tired referee that staggered out of a Manhattan ring last week where awkward Light-Heavyweight Champion Paul Berlenbach had been defending himself against flat -footed Challenger Billy ("Young") Stribling. The latter had spent all but three of 15 rounds hugging close to his rangy opponent, out of...