Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past year he has become to many thousands of his countrymen a radical, a lunatic, an attacker of the sanctity of the home, an advocate of free love and of birth control. By his advocacy of what he terms "companionate marriage," he has made many warm admirers but countless bitter enemies, has almost obliterated the reputation of Juvenile Court Judge Lindsey with the new reputation of Companionate Marriage Exponent Lindsey...
...summoned blue arms of the law, who brought detectives and newsgatherers in their train. Soon the Lihme apartment-once imposing, now dismaying-was filled with a buzz of talk, excited, threatening, incredulous, ominous. With the aid of stalwart Doorman Healy whose front changed from polite surprise to bitter penitence, the time was shifted back several days, the scene remaining the same...
...directed by Bruno Walter, music master of present-day Teutons. His baton had many times hushed audiences of the Staatsoper, once the Royal Opera of Berlin. Even at 17, he had directed the opera at Cologne. Munich, Vienna, Riga had acclaimed him. Later, when anti-Semitic feeling grew bitter in Europe, he sailed for the U. S. Some say he is first in the hearts of German-Americans...
Sirs: Re "Bitter Taunt" p. 2, TIME, June 13, 1927, I write you as one of the humblest of the mighty host comprising the citizenry of the British Commonwealth of Nations. As a temporary resident (and therefore guest), of these great United States of America. As one who served with the Canadian forces in France and Belgium from February, 1915, to October, 1918, in various ranks, from Private to Staff-Captain, Corps Headquarters. I desire to apologize to you, and the thousands who -will have read it, the deplorably tactless, ill-timed, and partially untruthful letter of "ONE" Cyril...
...burden of Mr. Lowell's remarks on this occasion were apropriately to the contrary as he pointed out a philosophical escape. Personal success need not turn to ashes and bitter brew if only regarded as the means to a greater end. We need not fall back completely on the scant solace which comes with the final realization that happiness accompanied the labor itself and not the material fruits of the labor, that we must enjoy in retrospect...