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Word: unpleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

Happily, all the strenuous Americans herein arbitrarily assembled are dead. Mr. Dibble has nothing to fear in the way of retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strenuous Americans | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

Now that the hectic fury of the Yale game week-end is a thing of the past and even the wettest clothes have been dried, the question of ticket allotment seems almost remote and petty. It is something of a compliment to the Athletic Association that it should be so...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TICKET ALLOTMENT | 12/8/1923 | See Source »

His story has the strong smell of dreary sordidness. Degeneration is the theme; a playright and his actress wife, the characters. The playwright will not cheapen his work to pander to the petty tastes of the masses whose francs support the Theatre. He lives on the earnings of his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

I am not a Catholic, but neither-- thank God--am I a Mason, and hence, I think, I am very advantageously placed for replying to the preposterous emission in your Friday issue. Oddly enough your correspondent seems to have hit upon the answer to his own conundrum, without, of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advantageously Placed | 11/17/1923 | See Source »

That queer communication which appeared Friday gave me a complex of feelings, however. In addition to its amazing construction, and its refreshingly original grammar and punctuation, this jovial missive presented a viewpoint on University affairs which is, to say the least surprising. It barks back to a type of thinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fit For The Klan | 11/17/1923 | See Source »

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