Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very expensive cast gave a patchwork performance in a somewhat unpalatable play. The single redeeming feature was the bitter brilliance of Margalo Gillmore...
America, long considered the most defenceless great nation in the world, has just swallowed two bitter doses of jingoism without blinking. European countries, where a vigorous military class has long been the tradition, finds its war-like ideals trampled upon by their former defenders. Perhaps this reversed balance of trade in military illusions may mean a reversal of military strength, as Bertrand Russell insists, the United States may become the only great military nation in the world. The unsophisticated ear of American public opinion is still fascinated by the blare of warlike demonstration, and the jingo is still the herald...
...American Mercury for October went hot with pride, shame or anger. Editor Henry Louis Mencken had delivered himself of another diatribe on U. S. journalism. Once a newspaper man himself, Editor Mencken now looks down upon his former fellows and their calling with scorn and impatience. His tirades are bitter, egregrious, painfully penetrating. They are the firebrands of a studious but inactive idealist...
...extent of that reception, as you may be with the reception accorded to you here, but you will find as you proceed along the homestretch that these are but the first evidences of the feelings which all Americans long to show to you." Said the Daily Worker, bitter sheetlet of Chicago Communists: "Thousands of morons are gathering at Maywood, where the fliers will land, in order to get a glimpse at the red-blooded American pioneers. Special trains will be run and there will be more excitement in Chicago, than if the news had come that the King of Afghanistan...
...English company from the Haymarket Theatre migrated to Manhattan for the occasion. Joyce Barbour, she of the errant affections, is both beautiful and accomplished in her craft. Leo G. Forbes and Ralph Forbes combine the severity and simplicity of bitter emotion with distinction...