Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three bitter enemies of horse-racing (W. E. Raney, onetime Attorney General of Ontario, the Honorable Newton Wesley Rowell, member of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto, and the Rev. Ben Spence, head of the Prohibition Union) $25,000 worth of Ontario Jockey Club stock, on condition that they retain the stock for a period of years and draw dividends...
Their rubbers creaked as they went trudging across the Yard cold with a bitter sweep of wind--and the ice glare upon the steps of Widener. Three of them, Jopes, and Plimpkin and Thwait! The brief cases at their sides bulked heavy...
...Temperamentally, through all the crucifixion of the months that preceded the tragedy of the murder of her husband and Mrs. Mills, this woman's bitter, salty tears must have flowed inward, drenching the wounds in her heart and soul...
...Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Rio). Those who have seen the play remember how Captain Flag and Sergeant Quirt are continually clutching at one another's throat hot-tempered rivals for any wench that happens on their common path, remember also how these fighting men unhesitatingly leave off the bitter wrangling when the bugle sounds the call to their "religion of soldiering." The love of the marines is nothing to make a prop lady sigh...
...severance of all athletic relationships between Harvard and Princeton, although accompanied during the past two weeks with many a bitter innuendo, may well mark a useful milestone in the progress of football, the game which caused all the trouble. For at the bottom of the break lie two important principles, new in the athletic management of universities, which the Harvard authorities had courage enough to advance and stand firm on. The first is the shortening of the football schedule: the second, abolition of a series of practically fixed games, each one of which was turning year by year into more...