Word: vinegarish
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Died. Ben Hecht, 70, playwright and screenwriter, a onetime Chicago newsman who, with the late Charles MacArthur, immortalized the seedy Galahads of Cook County pressrooms with his rowdy 1928 valentine, The Front Page, thereafter indulged his bent for vinegarish sentiment in maudlin novels and Zionist pamphleteering, but plied a true trade as one of Hollywood's most highly paid ($5,000 a week, even in the 1930s) and accomplished script doctors, turning out dozens of literate originals, such as The Scoundrel (also with MacArthur) and Crime Without Passion, adaptations ranging from Wuthering Heights to A Farewell to Arms...
...Vinegarish Report...
...Your vinegarish report on General Joseph W. Stilwell moves me to quote a bit from the Bard...
...reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything. He is rarely a talker, usually a listener -a lanky, youthful but somehow worn-looking young man who is painfully awkward with strangers. Around his Suffolk coast home...
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