Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors to grasp the possibilities offered by their undertaking. Not only is consideration of the student aspect of the field neglected, but the policy seems limited to the sensationalism of a large number of radical journals. In doing this The Progressive overlooks its most useful opportunity and allows a bitter air of personal and class feeling to become evident in the paper...
...detestable weather they descended on Boiling Field at Washington, dropped their landing lines and prepared to spend the night. A bitter welcome they had. The wind rose and howled about their squamous sides. The landing lights upon the field were burned all night. Ground crews were turned from their warm bunks and 650 men kept standing on the icy field straining their arms to keep the blimps from tearing loose. The crews were kept in the baskets of the ships; the engines were kept running in case a forced departure should be necessary...
...Soglow ambitions are modest. He confines himself to vignettes. Sometimes they are smokily morbid, but the artist is more often impelled to bitter Hogarthian humor. As a regular contributor to the New Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently...
...apparent that Mr. Agee has read his Robinson appreciatively, for while he has borrowed the bitter and concisely astringent qualities of Robinson's verse forms, he has no taste for epigram or obscuring his verse with inversions and periphrasis. His poem of the variant life-urge which derives from soil and season and harvest is of the earth earthy, profound and moving...
...Significance. Chesterton's pencil sketches add immeasurably to the fun? "Lady Caroline Balcomb plumbing the Depths of European Affairs" through a lorgnette; "Richard Mallard expressing his incapacity for surprise." The text is a sparkling satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot?international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...