Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dictionary of the future will contain the above entry, if the popular imagination is captured by the winning word in the $200 contest which has been conducted recently by Delcevare King '95 for an epithet of bitter opprobrium applicable to a lawless drinker. From among over 25,000 words submitted by 6234 people, the winning term was chosen, according to the announcement of the award made last night by the judges...
...Significance. The anonymous author writes with a bitter pen. His book is a slashing, venom-dipped arraignment of Jewry, heaving its stinking bulk out of a diseased ghetto. It is a savage, relentless, yet unimpassioned, picture. The style is violent, unembellished. A crammed, stark, narrative. Many of the characters are recognizable...
Dear Sir: Having had another Sunday spoiled by the bitter schismatic and unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, I desire to give up my pew in the church. The few Sundays that I have free from evangelical work to spend with my family are too precious to be wasted in listening to such dismal, bilious travesty of the gospel. We want to hear about Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man, not about the Fundamentalists and Modernists, the only subject on which your stated supply seems to have anything...
Fire blackened wreckage, a gasoline tank, pieces of rubberized cloth, is all that has appeared of the Dixmude (TIME, Jan. 7) on the surface of the water. Bitter controversy as to the cause of the tragedy has so far produced no enlightening facts. American and British airship projects are in no wise to be altered-experts in both countries claim that structural weakness of the Dixmude, hastily built in wartime, is to blame, that better ships are now being built. The French, on the other hand, are likely to abandon all their work in such craft, concentrat- ing on supremacy...
...Habanera is one of those Spanish operas written by Frenchmen, of which Carmen is the grand type. It represents those characteristic Spanish dance rhythms accompanying a bitter tragedy...