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Word: unpleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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It does seem as though the masters of popular destiny could behave a little less boorishly, not to say stupidly. Surely they know that what storm she could brew in the tea pots of the pleasant circles where she would visit could not do half the damage of this greater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS COMMUNISTIC COUNTESS | 10/27/1925 | See Source »

A Man's Man. There are quantities of people who condemn a play because it happens to be unpleasant. Their idea of the Theatre is a place to go for a good laugh or a tug of war among the heart strings. The preponderance of this type of drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 26, 1925 | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

But others beside the unhappy journalist yearning for the golden era of the New York Sun in its prime have cause to take alarm at the sturdy growth of this bastard offspring of the more decent journals. The mushroom development to a circulation of 100,000 in less than a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOURNALISTIC HYBRIDS | 10/21/1925 | See Source »

And to any but the casual thinker this has certain rather unpleasant implications. Either Mr. Brangwyn asks too much of a human face or life asks too little. Of course the belief that man's character lies revealed upon his face has long been shown false. Yet the spiritual power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACE OF FAITH | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Matters were in a bad way on Gilbert Jones' ranch one hot summer day with the mortgage due at 8 o'clock, a fretful uncle making a nuisance of himself, Gilbert's old sweetheart and her unpleasant husband complicating matters, and everybody fighting for possession of the ranch and the...

Author: By H. M. H. jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/14/1925 | See Source »

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