Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Kohler, the true paternalist in industry, such demands represented the peak of Labor's ingratitude. On wages and hours he might have compromised but he was ready to risk a bitter labor deadlock rather than recognize the A. F. of L. as the sole representative of his workers. The first crisis came when Kohler Co. ran low on coal, after strikers had blocked three coal cars being switched to the plant. Since the plant furnishes the town with water, Kohler's whole water supply was threatened. Father John Maguire, Federal Labor Mediator, with difficulty persuaded the strikers...
...this Sir John Simon flushed beet-red, his secretary paled amid French amazement. This climaxed the public spat over Sir John's proposal to grant a measure of rearmament to Germany which M. Barthou bluntly rejected (TIME, June 11). To all appearances they parted bitter enemies, but just before Sir John left Geneva, M. Barthou, having discovered the nature of his blunder, called to make a handsome apology which Sir John handsomely accepted...
...first expedition, which had as its goal the Forbidden City of Lhasa, started in 1896. Over 16,000-ft. mountain passes, in bitter sub-zero weather, he led his dwindling caravan where no white men had ever been before; for 55 days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin...
...WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS-Lang-ston Hughes-Knopf ($2.50). Fourteen short stories about whites by a black. Bitter but not otherwise remarkable...
...days later, he was a really great man at last. Side by side with this main narrative- the lifelong duel between Hallem who wanted to die and Roiter who was determined to live-are the hardly less moving stories of Hallem's sons, inheritors of his bitter spirit, of his wife, whom he alternately loved and hated, of Roiter's wife and children, many another minor but well-indicated character. Well and truly translated,- Duel does not read like a translation, has none of the queer woodenness of a foreign book...