Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town of Tirana, capital of Albania, a little advertised but none the less bitter controversy was waged over the future Albanian Government. Is it to be Monarchical or Republican? That is the question which Albanian Deputies of the Constituent Assembly were discussing during the past week over their cups of Turkish coffee...
...still under thirty. He is a Southerner, but long years in the Middle West have quite obliterated any trace of a Southern accent. He attended Hamilton College?this he holds a bond in common with Alexander Woollcott, the increasingly weighty dramatic critic of The New York Herald. As a bitter and somewhat bumptious critic Mr. Weaver made his early reputation on the Chicago Daily News. His columns in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle have been characterized by fearless honesty and a remarkable freshness of expression. Certain of his critics have intimated that Mr. Weaver was and is the only extant member...
...half margin. The Crimson trio forced the play into Eli territory, however, and a goal by Stranahan followed by another beautiful shot by Kent put Harvard to the fore by half a point with only a minute to play. Yale rallied, and Baldwin scored the deciding tally from a bitter scrimmage in front of the Crimson goal, making the final score 5 to 4 1-2. The half-point lost by Harvard on a foul in the initial chukker proved to be the Blue's margin of victory...
...Grant first came into nation-wide prominence a year ago when his outspoken liberal views stirred up a bitter controversy in the New York diocese of the Episcopal Church. He took a decided stand against a literal interpretation of the Bible, maintaining that it should be applied to present-day needs and problems in a practical way Bishop William T. Manning of the New York diocese disagreed violently with Dr. Grant's utterances, and the dispute that followed shook the Episcopal Church to its foundations. Dr. Grant was firm in his advocacy of a livable religion and refused to retract...
...Coolidge. There was no definite national referendum upon the clean cut issue of American participation in a League or Association to preserve the peace of the world. Out of the contest in the Senate over the Versailles treaty there developed an intransigent frame of mind in the so-called "bitter enders" which made impossible the advancement of any proposition for "the" or "an" Association or League. This state of mind nearly wrecked the treaties negotiated at the Naval Limitation Conference in the autumn of 1921, particularly the four power Pacific pact, which was not ratified until President Harding told...