Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, the resolution of the former soldier to see the treasures of capitalists offered in measure equal to his own sacrifice of flesh and blood, bred by a war's bitter experience, can hardly be undone by any number of conservative journals or by any deluge of warning editorials. American veterans seem unanimous in their intention to exact this un-bankerlike concession from the next congress, as it forced the bonus from the last. The Legion may still be led on the still-hunt for indigo-colored witches; but in the matter of the payment of war, it knows...
...Hertz abjures all this: "I have had a bitter lesson. I was pitch-forked into the stockmarket; now I am going to pitch myself out of it. ... I have done nothing for the last six months but worry over the stockmarket action of our securities. I had an eye glued to the tape most of the time and missed many a good night's sleep. I am through with this forever. . . . Surplus earnings from now on are go- ing to be ploughed back into the company...
...Fundamentalists. As the Baptist minister of a Presbyterian Church, he became the object of attack by both religious bodies. He especially incurred the wrath of William Jennings Bryan, who believes with Dr. John Roach Straton, that "there are no missing links and no ape men." The culmination of this bitter and pitiless attack on the great liberal religious leader came last fall when the First Presbyterian Church of New York, where Dr. Fosdick has been minister, for several years, decided to sever all relations with...
...understood. From the position of Mayor of Fronteras, the proud Mexican aristocrats forced him. Not a public office was open to him. This drove him to the "soap-box"; and his so-called Radical speeches inflamed the workers to red-hot enthusiasm for him, his enemies to bitter hatred...
...President means by this that the federal government should secure for southern negroes the right to vote he is reopening a question which has not been brought before congress since the defeat of the Force bill 25 years ago. A similar measure if pushed today would probably revive a bitter controversy. It remains to be seen whether the president means all that his message implies...