Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President he emphatically vetoed it. What right, he asked, had corporations to buy goodwill by making contributions to charity? Why should corporations give to charities money which stockholders ought to have the right to contribute personally? When the President's opinions were published charitarians were bitter. What difference, they asked, was there in a corporation giving it to the unemployed on behalf of its taxpayers? Said Alan Burns of the National Council of Community Chests: "Any conception of corporate responsibility that does not include an obligation to local private charities belongs to the horse and buggy days...
...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...
...tale of difficulty and discouragement at the hands of the "Pearsonites." T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, onetime Congressman from Mississippi whom Senator Pat Harrison, not entirely unselfishly, rescued from political limbo with a Federal judgeship in the Islands, had previously distinguished himself by proceeding in the face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between Judge Wilson and the Pearson Administration over disposition of the case of Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet. relict of famed Confederate General James...
...less does he think of Strube's Little Man. . . . He visualizes a tall, spare man, immaculately dressed in top hat and frock coat, wearing spats and an eyeglass, and gripping a short but aggressive pipe in an enormous jaw. . . . To the German mind this immaculate figure is inspired by bitter jealousy of all foreign countries, by diabolical cunning, by ruthless materialism disguised under a revolting wrapper of unctuous self-righteousness. To him, the average Englishman is a clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always...
...waged a bitter battle to present documentary evidence that atheism, free love and disarmament for the sake of Red revolution and dictatorship are the principles of Communism-Socialism and that notorious jailbird Communist agitators, Negro and white, speak constantly in U. of C. halls sponsored by U. of C. authorities. The seditious pronouncements recorded at one Communist Congress alone, held there, should convict the U. of C. authorities under the Illinois sedition...