Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From years of relative isolation from other student bodies, a system of slang is unique to the Corps. For example, the word "soiree" is used as a noun to mean an unpleasant task, and as a verb to mean "to inconvenience." It started back in the dim ages when officers...
"It is the moron who shoulders uncomplainingly the unpleasant tasks of life. If any steps are taken to prevent the reproduction of morons, many lawyers, doctors, parliamentarians, preachers and Congressmen would have to go to work. . . . As a rule the ordinary moron works. . . .. The mass of the world's...
Ladies Leave. Sophie Treadwell. who last season contributed Machinal to Broadway's annals of despair, returns this year with a glancing comedy of love in the psychoanalysis belt. A Viennese practitioner of that science prescribes adultery for the wife of a boorish editor. His nostrum proves rather unpalatable, for...
A tailor-made play in every respect, Grant Mitchell's revived vehicle is not unpleasant. Depending on the locality, it would be described as "an agreeable farce comedy", a "healthy" one or an "Inconsequential" one. The curtain-line is: "Isn't life a wonderful proposition after all?" That's the...
In Boston such stupid and unreasonable efforts to keep clean the public morals are unfortunately so, numerous that one folly more or less makes little difference, but the spectacle of a Bostonized United States is unpleasant and uninviting. It is by no means a wholly impossible outcome to the tendency...