Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shore of the Polar Sea with the Alaskan still ticking off miles like a great grey goose and had bountiful fuel still aboard. They had thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due north over the seething floes. It was snowing a bitter blizzard, but far from shore the sun reappeared and they distinguished, 7,000 feet below, that the smooth sea had changed to a white inferno of hummocks ? the great polar icecap in the center of which is what geographers call "the pole of inaccessibility," one of the objectives for which...
...monopolies. In Wall Street there ensued a modicum of cheer. At Paris, Premier Briand described the Senate's action rather theatrically as "a torpedo directed against my Cabinet." He referred of course, to the possibility that the Radicals and Socialists may open up the same sort of "bitter enders'" fight over the monopolies that they have been staging for months over the sales...
Apparently to justify the shallowness of the book there is a moral to all this word-syncopation. The cover-chare, as it is not tremendously difficult to guess, is the bitter payment exacted from the gigoles in return for which they have received nothing worth while. In spite of this very worthy but hardly original religious by play, the book leaves the felling that you have been listening to two solid hours of very bad jazz...
...Testament gives two slightly different versions of the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Collating and dividing these Laws into Ten have been a bitter problem. Jews have one method (the Talmudic) ; Reformed (Calvinistic) churches and the Orthodox Eastern Church another (the Philonic, after Phile Judaeus, 20 B. C. to 54 A. D.) ; and the Church of Rome and the Lutherans a third (the Augustinian, after St. Augustine...
...sweet or bitter, is the essence of autobiography. Cartoonist McDougal's is exhilaratingly tart. Roosevelt once warned: "He can sting like an adder," but could have amended, from his knowledge of the man and of adders, that he was not wantonly poisonous. The tongue that flickers through these pages feels for its cheek oftener than not. And another thing: adders do not boast...