Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?A bitter, bitter draft of a New England brew, concocted by that most artistic distiller of sour drinks, Eugene O'Neill...
...Stacpoole was not bitter about it. "There is no use," said he, "abusing ships. They are up against hard times and new conditions." But Governments could "end this terrible business," he thought; and he forthwith called for an international conference "to thresh it out." He offered no suggestions as to how the high seas might be made safe for aviculture, nor did he estimate what leagues of ocean are still unpolluted by the oily skirts of commerce
...entitled to his seat. He resigned from the Senate about eight months after it had adjourned. I need not discuss with you or anyone else the occasion of his resignation. Only a moment's reflection as to the atmosphere with which he was surrounded there after the bitter attacks that had been made upon him will show you how unhappy the normal being would have been even though the Senate had voted he had a right to his seat. When you describe him as "a leading apologist for the Teapot Dome Lease," you are referring to a political episode...
WHITE CARGO?The bitter blanket of loneliness and sun that smothers white men's morals among the natives of Africa...
...supposed, until the recent furor in Tennessee was stirred up, that the old debate of evolution vs. religion had been stilled forever. The truth of the theory of evolution, it seemed, had been universally acknowledged; and the necessary theological readjustments, made by the greatest intellectual figures of those bitter days, had become the basis of the modern world's view of life...