Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hammering of the past months, not even the bitterest opponent has belittled the Hoover mind. The intellectual stature of him is too patent. . . . It is wide thinking, it is fast, it is intuitive, it is as accurate as a die, it is flexible, it is creative...
Trader Horn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The longest, bitterest journey of Trader Horn ended last week at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. In 1928, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sent two actresses, two actors, Director W. S. Van Dyke and some technicians on an eight-month junket into Africa to shoot the most capricious game of all?an idea. Alfred Aloysius Horn, 75, all-talking hero of Ethelreda Lewis' book, was their theme. Jungle hardships were ameliorated by an ice plant, good food-&-drink, comfortable housing. The real difficulties developed when the film arrived back in California. It would not jell; the script...
Cotton Dogs. Bitterest last week were the plaints of Lancashire cotton weavers. Five thousand had already struck against the employers' new system of assigning one weaver to tend eight looms instead of four, while raising the basic wage from $9.36 weekly to only...
Died. Vintila Bratianu, 63, onetime (1926-28) Premier of Rumania, bitterest foe of King Carol, last diehard of the Liberal Party; of an apoplectic stroke; at his estate near Bucharest...
...committee in New York, handed this message, asked him to define in a sentence what the civil war had been all about. "Generally speaking," he replied, "the revolution was the result of political favoritism and domination of the country by the coffee interests in the state of Sao Paulo," bitterest rival of Rio Grande...