Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children heaped bitter denunciation on the pragmatic Harvard Athletic Association. Said the Society: "We will make a quiet appeal to the . . . Association to bring this practice to an end. ... If police arrested the boys they would not be locked in cells. Children have certain rights which older people do not have...
...Bitter Feeling. But elimination of the liquor question did not entirely preclude bad feeling. Educational requirements for admission to the Bar received major consideration and brought in conflict two belligerent factions, one headed by Dean Lewis of Pennsylvania, the other by Dean Gleason Leonard Archer of the Suffolk Law School (Boston night school). Dean Lewis advocated reaffirming the Association's previous recommendation of a two-year college education prior to law study. Dean Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that...
Prohibition. The Association's policy to avoid bitter feelings by hushing discussion of Prohibition repeal was jeopardized by the presence of a determined wet wing, consisting largely of New York lawyers headed by John Giraud Agar. Firm chairmanship was necessary to keep the subject sidetracked...
Tremont--"Bitter Sweet". Noel Coward's new operetta should not be missed...
...Coward will open "Bitter-Sweet" in New York City the first week of November. Then he will travel around the world until next May when he expects to return to New York to play in a new production...