Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Future. The effectiveness of this debt-funding agreement depends on its approval by the Italian Government and by Congress. In Congress there will certainly be objection from 100-cents-on-the-dollar men, but the consensus of informed opinion is that the agreement will be accepted. The bitter-enders, especially from the West, will be sure to bring up the argument that, although the U. S. Government is getting only 25 cents on the dollar, the agreement had hardly been made known when Wall Street made plans for lending money to Italy at high rates of interest. The answer...
...Marlowe, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, made speeches, and those who read the proud colophon upon the tablet and listened to the eloquence of Col. Ingersoll's admirers, reflected how, 40 years ago, the State of Delaware had offered him an entertainment on its whipping block, and how the bitter attacks of his many enemies filled the newspapers...
...perceived that they care nothing for music; if they sit silent, it is supposed that they are asleep. The Vice President may have been defamed by people who did not know that, as a youth he was accounted a virtuoso on the violin; that he still solaces his bitter moods with fiddling; that he is a composer...
...lovers of sport for sport's sake, defeat is not always bitter, for it may be tempered with satisfaction over a clean contest nobly fought. Under the same conditions of play, however, victory is doubly sweet...
...then, go back to first principles. I believe that anyone who would forget the bitter political discussions and would devote an hour's honest thought to the subject would see that if America is to do anything to co-operate with other nations for world peace the least we can do is to join the Court. There is much more we can do, but we can scarcely do anything less and participate at all in the world-wide effort to prevent...