Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would work for the privilege of his education--the finest kind of student a university can have. Is it not deplorable when there are not more than some thirty positions, offered to the whole undergraduate body, to help men to help themselves? There is a bitter scramble for these jobs every year. At the same time an article has just recently appeared in the Yale Daily News, telling of over 200 students helped by Yale University during the past College year. Is it any wonder that the poor and earnest student turns his face oward New Haven...
...gradual modification of present institutions by pearceful methods. Political interest in Japan, excluding a majority of the workers who are not yet conscious of anything beyond the daily rice-basket, is divided between the rich, hereditary nobles, concentrating political and economic power in their hands, and the no less bitter Socialists who wish to destroy that power...
...Meredith of Des Moines. In office, Mr. Wallace conducted the Department's affairs with quiet industry and without notable occurrences other than his staunch opposition to the proposed transfer of Alaskan forest reserves to the control of Secretary Fall's Department of the Interior. This fight was long and bitter. In his speech of July, 1923, President Harding let it be known that he sided with Mr. Wallace and against Secretary Fall. The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture...
...past, the Mencken idealism has seemed sometimes over-bitter, over-scornful. Emanating from the studious atmosphere of a secluded Baltimore library, it has seemed far removed from the ugly realities it so resents. Now all this is to be changed. Idealist Mencken has shown himself to be a practical as well as an inspired reformer. Last week the Chicago Tribune Syndicate advertised that Idealist Mencken had offered his service to any and all papers in the land that were desirous of employing "a great literary critic . . . perhaps the fore- most in America." Hereafter there will be no excuse...
...that it has no real value, certainly no large value. The genial Mark was not unduly annoyed by critics during his life-time. What has been called his exuberant lying" was never the subject of any serious diatribes on the part of critics. That is why the extremely bitter remark must be taken as the expression of a momentary pique, a resentment at some unexpected abuse...