Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the exhibition opened at Manhattan, supercilious critics expressed a mild surprise that the Italian sculptor Wildt had managed to get so brutal and unflattering a likeness of Il Duce past the Fascist censor. They dismissed the bust as an unpleasant thing to look upon and turned away. . . .
For fear of being charged with protecting official wrongdoing, most senators have heretofore voted for investigations when irregularity was hinted at. Such an attitude has given the members of the vast bureaucracy, which is the executive arm of the government, a healthy respect for efficiency. Under the Republican plan, proposed...
In spite of his soothing message, the President seems a bit perturbed over the turn events have taken in the past few months. He fears that blunt Democratic remarks concerning the aluminum trust, the tariff commission, and the Mitchell furbelow may operate against a Republican victory. To offset the pernicious...
There are in the University curriculum a number of courses, distinctly too large in our opinion, which have in them preponderant elements of uselessness, boredom, unnecessary accumulations of worthless facts for the purpose of "mental discipline", and other equally unpleasant characteristics. The desirability of freedom from the ills of the...
In searching around for nice things to say about this week's Fenway program, it seems on the whole best to dwell on Leatrice Joy's "Made for Love" and leave "The Red Kimono" (Is that the way you spell "Kimono"?) discreetly in the background. Discussing even this one, it...