Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter murder trial that has attracted national attention...
...seems destined to be followed by a near-depression in 1923-24. But our banking position is impregnably strong, Europe is recovering, prices long out of line are being gradually readjusted. Business must take its medicine next year, in all probability, but it will not be anything like as bitter a dose as was swallowed...
John Dos Passos became a figure for national discussion when his Three Soldiers appeared two years ago. Its bitter, naturalistic tone was criticized by many as " disloyal." By others it was hailed as" the Truth about the War." Most critics agreed that it was a capable and occasionally brilliant piece of writing. Since then this young Harvard graduate has published a volume of poems, a volume of essays, painted a series of pictures which were exhibited in Manhattan and made two trips to Europe, from one of which he is at the moment making the return voyage. His novel...
...Hecht is always about to embark upon a new enterprise. His dark eyes, nervous movements, ejaculatory speech, bitter mind, all suddenly are brought to bear upon the impossible and it is accomplished. He does too much. His plays just miss being brilliant. His novels suffer from a lack of taste which would undoubtedly be ironed out in a second writing. When he started to write a Rabelaisian fantasy in Fantazius Mallare he was only adolescent in his pornography and was consequently affected. His last book, a detective story, The Florentine Dagger, he claims to have written in ten hours...
Gloria Swanson: "In the love nest scene for Zaza, my new picture, I broke a record by remaining in tears for five consecutive hours. I ran the whole gamut of emotions, passing rapidly from hate to frenzy, mockery to jealousy and then to bitter contrition...