Word: bitterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilhelm of Doom read these terms and knew that his onetime Nationalist supporters had accepted them, his birthday must have been bitter. With German tact, the Nationalists despatched to Doom individually hundreds of birthday presents and almost a thousand birthday baskets of flowers. At the same time they collectively pledged themselves to uphold the Republic against the Hohenzollerns...
...German Nationalist (Monarchist) party came to the end of its long and bitter struggle against Republican Germany last week, and definitely abandoned hope of restoring the Hohenzollerns. By a grim paradox this decision was made on the 68th birthday of Wilhelm II. The occasion was the formation of a new Cabinet by Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, whose old Cabinet resigned some weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 27). Chancellor Marx took into his new Cabinet four Nationalist ministers, after their party had acceded to the four following conditions...
...Bitter, perhaps, to Queen Elena is the thought that if her kin ever reign again, in Montenegro, it will be through the doing of a one-time hod-carrier, Benito Mussolini, and not due to any potency of her consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened...
...Brothers Karamazov, by Jacques Copeau and Jean Croue (translated into English by Rosalind Ivan) would be found to contain the full literary significance of Dostoievsky's novel, though wanting in dramatic fulfillment by reason of its uncrystalized theatrical version of those spiritual gropings which gave even Dostoievsky a bitter struggle on a more spacious field...
Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious solecisms, looms more arid more like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought...