Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Significance. Need anything further be said to suggest that there has now been published a charming, witty and philosophical comedy of manners in the full regalia, atmosphere and personnel of Boston, 1850, and in the full flood of life anywhere, at any time? If so, let a specimen of...
"I don't want to say anything unpleasant. Let me remind you, however, that before you were given the franchise it was urged that woman suffrage would bring purity and cleanliness into public office.
In the current "Century", writing under the title, "An Unfortunate Necessity", Gerald W. Johnson discards censorship and discovers a new method of attack. The fault of the newspapers is, he says, not in telling unpleasant news but in telling it unpleasantly. If the journalists were clever enough, his intimation is...
Except for the two classic names. there was nothing to warrant excitement. In the first place, the malt tonic is unpotable. While it contains 3.5% alcohol, it also contains 25% solid. One slimy gulp of it is unpleasant, two are unspeakable, three unthinkable. In the second place, the permits granted...
At Paris Novelist Henri Barbusse, winner of the Prix Goncourt with his pen and the Croix de Guerre with his sword, occupies a position unique and anomalous. He is always bringing some unpleasant fact to light, and his genius is always just sufficient to make the expose nauseatingly unforgettable. With...