Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...French are bitter because they're unable to fight...
...their likeness was striking. Neither was polished. Hitler used too many theses and thoses and Lord Lothian too many buts. Each tacitly admitted grave military weaknesses on his own side. Both agreed that the war is not war but a revolution; that it must be fought to the bitter end; that Germany is fighting not only Great Britain, but the world of capitalism and free enterprise as represented by Britain...
...professional Santa by booking a round of Clausing (at $5 to $25 an appearance) in Portland, Ore. private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas who have followed in his footsteps. Said he: "They scare children...
Piscator feels that Lear's picture of the ravages wrought by the power lust is especially relevant nowadays. It is. Whether or not Piscator's or others' stage inventions can add to Lear's bitter power, Piscator's Lear is a stimulating...
...then, are the stories? They are ominous, crucl, sad--the sinister adjectives accumulate, perhaps because they are already in the mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back...