Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When 1904 came the Democrats decided to try another candidate. They chose Alton B. Parker, who repudiated free silver. Mr. Bryan grumbled but stood aside and saw Parker go down to a bitter defeat before Roosevelt...
...Sorrento, Italy, Maxim Gorky, "The Bitter One," famed Russian novelist, became morbid, cabled Dr. Alexander Kaun of the University of California to commission him to write The Life and Times of Maxim Gorky. Dr. Kaun left immediately for the author's bedside...
...when young Congressman Underwood went to Washington. In 1910, when the Democrats, following the fight over the Payne-Aldrich tariff, emerged triumphant in the congressional elections, Mr. Underwood, a seasoned legislator of 15 years' experience, emerged as the majority leader. There followed the Underwood tariff. There followed a bitter fight between Underwood and Bryan in which Underwood came out the victor. There followed a Democratic convention in 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for President and Oscar W. Underwood, had he not refused it, might have had the Vice Presidential offering...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-The bitter loneliness and granite atmosphere of a New England farmhouse blended by Eugene O'Neill into a gaunt tragedy of infidelity...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?-A battle song with some blood, no heroes and a blast of bitter irony...