Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparently is not without its 100 per cent Americans, ever ready to champion militarism. The recent issue of the Beanpot has been suppressed and Miss Perkins, the editor, obliged to resign, because she had the temerity to express her disapproval of compulsory military training. There appears again the old bitter problem of free speech. It seems odd after all this has been fought over and thrashed out so thoroughly that any official leg should be left to stand upon...
...partisan cartoonist, not curious but bitter, depicts the Republican Covered Wagon just as it has crossed Recent Election River. The perplexed Elephant turns to Driver Cal, asking: "Now, where's that half-breed guide of ours gone ?" And Cal replies : "Search me ! He was in the wagon until we got safely across the river." But the trenchant pen of the cartoonist* discovers the "half-breed guide"-and what does he wear but the face of Mr. Borah?-hiding behind the brush and whispering to the prowling savages who wear insurgent feathers in their topknots...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?Eugene O'Neill concerns himself with the bitter contraries of lonely domestic life on a New England farm...
Prudent critics have arraigned the artists and musicians of this latter day, not without some show of justice, for being jongleur who, tongue in cheek, execute their insolent pastiches, sing their thin songs with nothing in their heads but a bitter and windy laughter. These critics have listened to the compositions of Composers Ravel and Satie, whose music laughs at music, have seen the works of Sculptor Nadelman, whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy...
...Refining Co., a consolidation which came out of these companies later. Some years ago, the "Sugar Trust" was investigated by Congress. Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator Walsh had cross-examined Mr. Warren on that occasion. They brought up the former investigation in their speeches. Senator Reed was particularly bitter. Said...