Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communist Mayor of Douarnenez in Finistere is dead. He was known throughout France for his bolshecratic manner of meting out Jus- tice. At his funeral, Bolsheviki paraded, waved red flags. Priests, called in by the family to officiate at the burial, declined to countenance the carrying of the flags: bitter, bad words from the Communists; hard, harsh tones from the Priests. A compromise was finally reached. The Communists retired to the end of the procession with their flags, while the Priests and nonCommunists marched ahead...
...Disappointment always follows the revival of a well-known author's early works. Such is the case here, for only in snatches do we glimpse the vivid characterization, the excellent narrative ability so clearly shown in Joanna Godden and The End of the House of Alard. It is a bitter struggle for Raphael, widow- er, father, country clerk, when he finds himself in the throes, of an utterly unreasonable love for an utterly unreasonable young lady, turned gypsy, from London. It is likewise a struggle for the reader...
...England," but he is not the head of the English Church. That post is held by His Grace of Canterbury, whose title is "Primate of all England." Between the two Archbishops a traditional feud exists. Sometimes, as in the days of St. Thomas Becket, 800 years ago, it is bitter, even bloody. Usually the feud is one of genial jest. As a rule, Canterbury crowns the King, although sometimes York has done it. Rarely, if ever, has York succeeded to the See of Canterbury. Rarely, if ever, have Their Graces of Canterbury succeeded in disciplining Their Graces of York...
...shelves, supplies the longest and most absorbing of the studies. "There are in it," Mr. Pearson says, "all the elements which make such an event worth reading about," and he is entirely right. It is unquestionably a fascinating "problem in human character and in human relations," although in the bitter discussion which it aroused some people were obliged to fall back on the alarming theory that it must have been an act of Divine intervention...
...Gresham Machen, stated supply (preacher) at the First Presbyterian Church, was relieved of his position. It was not announced whether or not Dr. Machen's withdrawal was aftermath of the flurry that occurred when Dr. Henry van Dyke, genial Princeton patriarch, protested against the "bitter, schismatic, unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton," gave up his pew, said: "Until he is done, count me out" (TIME, Jan 14). In connection with the release, however, the session of the First Presbyterian Church published a tribute to Dr. Machen in The Presbyterian...