Word: vowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly old [Sir Edmund] Gosses and [Lytton] Stracheys...
...Company). In the fall of 1934, after two of his plays (Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds) had been panned, Elmer Rice, calling first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," savagely forswore the theatre. But when The Playwrights' Company was formed last spring, Rice quietly chucked away his vow. Last week his American Landscape followed the Company's Knickerbocker Holiday and Abe Lincoln in Illinois to Broadway...
...back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife the truth. When he kisses his secretary, he tells his wife that the secretary sneaked up on him. He admits looking at other women's legs, but turns his confession into a diatribe on their immodesty. Souring under the strain, he declares the world...
...Composer Bloch fervor has always been instinctive. When he was a youngster running about the shop of his clock merchant father in Geneva, he made a vow that he would become a composer. Unlike most little boys, who would have made the vow and let it go at that, Bloch wrote it out on a scrap of paper, buried it under a mound of stones, built a fire over it, and mumbled incantations while he watched the burning embers...
...might feel who fell, unwillingly, from the window of a high-up room and yet kept his consciousness. ... I don't know how it happened and I am wildly tempted to call fate some very ugly names, if I had not just taken a sacred vow never to use gutter words again...