Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote against consideration of the World Court proposal in the last session indicated, if anything, that the bitter-enders on the League of Nations question would be opposed to the World Court. In this case, while the President's proposal would fail of support by certain Republicans, some Democratic help might be expected...
...capitalism, chief stake of diplomacy in backward countries, cause of war, seems destined to become more and more the great motivating factor of American foreign policy. Free competition has long since been abolished, and the struggle for wells, spheres of exploitation, areas of monopoly, and markets is becoming more bitter and more fraught with intrigue, discrimination, tariffs, and embargoes...
...literature in a carpet-covered room, never realizing that the West is still full of Rocky Mountains, and Piute Indians, whose music is the war-song of a Sitting Bull, whose art is the art of shooting straight, and whose literature is what they read from the bitter books of experience! For further particulars ask any Englishman...
...tasted of its bitter...
...dramatist, but it is characteristic of him that he will write four or five plays in his mind before a word of one reaches paper. " I like to entertain ideas," he said to me not long ago. " I like that word entertain." Life is to him a thing as bitter as the starkest moments of his tragic poems, as gentle as the sweetest of lyrics. And yet, as he writes in Birches- " Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better...