Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gill's faction to keep the answers in the realm of substance, the original investigation and allegations of Hurley were of such a personal nature that the "language frequently used renders this difficult." Also what is now left of Hurley's report to be combatted consists mainly in the bitter insinuations of the Auditor...
...connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband's left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster and faster. His face was twisted with pain and his hands pressed together in agony. 'I'm very...
...painfully. Still buzzing in his head was his noble notion: "Conditions are bad, not men." But last week when George's Son Edgar published a book called My Father, it was of men, not conditions that he spoke. In fact, Son Edgar threw open the door on the bitter meetings of that unhappy Labor Cabinet in which George Lansbury was First Commissioner of Works. In so doing he violated the British taboo that Cabinet discussions are sacred. Edgar had consulted neither the King nor the Prime Minister. George V did not much care. But Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald cared...
...Steel scrap prices, which generally forecast the trend of steel activity, rose to a 3½-year high at $14.50 per ton. Brightest spot was the Detroit area where mills were running at 100% capacity. Retail sales boomed again after the quiet interlude brought by storms and bitter weather. New England merchants reported a gain of 8.9% for February but the average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump of 62%. ]. J. C. Penney's chain stores reported sales for the first two months up 41%. S. H. Kress...
With green bag drooping wearily over one shoulder, the Vagabond picked his way along that slushy stretch of sidewalk which borders the Fogg Museum. It was five o'clock, foggy, and the end of a hard and bitter day. The bells in Memorial Hall had just ceased tolling, and those of St. Paul's had brazenly clattered their answer. A short distance ahead the Vagabond caught sight of an old woman. She was dressed in rags, she tottered onwards unmindful through the myriad puddles, and now and then she addressed a plaintive supplication to passers by. For this the Vagabond...