Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arab now has, for the first time since the last days of the great Caliphate, the opportunity to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the world. What complicates the affair from the British point of view, is the fact that Irak's bitter enemy is the other Arab kingdom of the Hedjaz, also subsidized from British coffers...
...normal critical plane and find anything like the perspective so easily applied to the average play. In the first place, Andreyev's "Life of Man" is obviously the work of a playwright who sees little or no hope for man in his present state of society. It is bitter, deeply so in parts, and tries at every turn to focus the listener's attention on the utter futility of Man's days on earth, and the frailty of his very work. With this as the dominant note, one might expect a Maeterlinck gloom to pervade the whole, but such...
...professor inhuman. This notion is the school-boy's heritage and is so strong that when an attempt is made to popularize a course, when the professor tries to escape the mould the student fastens upon him, he is criticized as sugar-coating a pill which is preferred bitter, as feebly trying to curry the student's favor...
...after. So have been many others, but always down the centuries will ring the names of those who have fought and thought for Ireland Spenser, his fine sensibilities hurt both by the brutality of the people and by the oppression they suffered, groped vainly for a solution. Swift's bitter but powerful satire, O'Connell's virile challenge, Parnell's lyric appeal, Gladstone's unexpert but well-meaning enthusiasm-- all have been heard, been registered, and until now it might have been said, forgotten...
...better make its suggestions to the Athletic Committee than in print where many people may not understand. Mr. Moore is bound by regulations and restrictions made for him by others in authority over him. After his admirable work of all these years, his courteous treatment of many bitter critics, and his extremely conscientious handling of every situation that arises, particularly in the distribution of football tickets, I--formerly in charge of that same situation and knowing whereof I speak--resent any implication whatsoever that anything he plans is makeshift. Mr. Moore himself almost never uses the number of tickets...