Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, oldtime Democratic State leader, now a bitter anti-Smithite. renewed his fight with a three-hour speech at Raleigh...
Nominee Hoover's secretary, George Akerson, sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour...
...State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
...soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious sermon showing that happiness is just around the corner for those who renounce gold...
...Bitter words to a dead man. More bitter had been the Journal's polemics of the past six months. For many an analyst believed it was the Strong policy of easy money which led to the stock market's frenzied speculation. And many a bull, in Manhattan and in Chicago, damned bitterly the Federal Reserve Bank's efforts to undo, by raising the rediscount rate, the mischief it had done. Most bullish of all bulls is the Journal. Most hateful, therefore, is the present high rediscount rate...