Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second reading of the new Rents Bill (control of rents) was passed by 248 votes to 101. There was a bitter feud between the Laborites and the Conservatives. The Bill was passed with the help of the Liberals...
While he is at the Eyre's place up the Hudson, trying to forget, Gulian meets Lael Sartori, moody and bitter debutante, whom he finds amusing. He meets her again at Sister Brasilia's, falls in love with her. Unfortunately, she misunderstands him and turns him down. So he goes back to New York, bitter...
...financial benefit of the college. In substance the amateur spirit has resisted the most obvious encroachments, but any approach to the methods of professionalism calls for immediate rejection. The proposal for a league organization of baseball among the eastern colleges seems to be just such an approach. In the bitter and prolonged competition for the league championship that would undoubtedly result, the position and powers of the coach would receive the usual undue emphasis. Moreover, the formation of a league necessarily means the resigning of some of the independence of each member; that the Athletic Committee must retain full powers...
...Davison's purpose and methods have ceased to be novel here; even the bitter disputes of two years ago over the name of the Glee Club have permanently ended (let it be hoped). Dr. Davison has proved conclusively enough that when properly led and instructed, the college man is susceptible to the appeal of good music, which might never have been suspected in former days, and moreover that the public can be taught to discriminate, and to appreciate,--which is equally important. However, the extraordinary success which the Glee Club has enjoyed in America does not make this compliment from...
...finally lost the battle of Waterloo because of a stomach ache. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was in the habit of eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from overeating." It seems established that while the diet can neither produce nor defeat genius, it can nevertheless distort its application and profoundly affect disposition and character...