Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncle's library for long afternoons, the cry of the dark streets a far tumult, while the words that he read stirred a music in his mind. He grew up vain, erratic and melancholy, visited by visions of a strange beauty with which he informed his gay or bitter verses. As he waited for the death that teased him like an urchin, remembering all the treacheries of his heart and the triumphs of his mind, he said: "God will forgive me?that is His business!" Admired by many while he lived, he was never so sympathetically, hence so completely, comprehended...
...Dail Eireann, sixth in the six years that the Irish Free State has existed, met last week in a bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...fate most bitter...
...answer is a sad one. Football no longer requires an afternoon; it demands a weekend. There is no especial use in again bewailing the encroachment of the game on the students time. Surely week ends are pleasant enough. But the fate of the game itself is bitter. Once the center of all attractions, it is being relegated to the position of a sideshow. Originally the star, it appears to be veering toward the chorus...
...West, Oregon and Idaho played a bitter scoreless tie; while Stanford trounced Nevada 20-2; and Washington massed 40 points to Puget Sound's none...