Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that he hoped the country would not be misled into thinking there are all sorts of corruption and incompetence in the Government, because "at this time of year" (that is, when elections are in the offing) politics leads to the making of bitter criticisms in Congress...
...would seem to be a gross exaggeration in as much as Lady Londonderry's guests, politely or no, insist that "there was scarcely anything to be had except lemonade and sandwiches" and that "you were extremely fortunate if you got anywhere near the buffet". These laments incontrovertibly reveal the bitter truth that there was not even enough...
...this is known in America. But in Germany those phases are almost overshadowed by another aspect of the situation--the political and psychological. No one can approach an understanding of the situation in Germany unless he realizes at the very outset that politics--politics of an intransigent and bitter variety of which the average American has no conception--intrudes itself dominatingly into every department of life, including even the exact sciences, and divides people into warring groups which combine more or less roughly into nationalists and patriots on the one side and internationalists and enemies of patriotism on the other...
Majestic--"The Big Parade", a motion picture with John Gilbert and Renee Adoree, at 8.15: Less bitter than "What Price Glory" and every bit as real. It is a splendid thing that these two pictures can reach every small town in America...
...important as giving political accounts an equal chance with those of the criminal is the need of freeing news from editorial bias. Amidst the cross purposes of advertisers, parties and causes, this requirement is an ideal doubtful of realization. Although unwarrantedly bitter, Upton Sinclair of "Brass Check" fame has shown beyond possibility of a libel charge that the opinion of all papers save a chosen few are definitely dominated by the influences of corporation and business...