Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold and bitter plain one day last week 28-year-old Henry Pu Yi, last of the Manchus, stood in dragon-embroidered robes, worshipped at the Altar of Heaven, and returning to his small unprepossessing palace became the Emperor Kang Teh (Tranquility-Virtue) of Manchukuo...
...bitter cold of Manchuria great things were about to happen this week. Squads of police had searched every house in Changchung and confiscated 3,000 rifles and 150,000 rounds of ammunition. Carloads of grain arrived to be distributed to 30,000 poor families while arrangements were made to house 4,000 homeless free. A guard of 5,000 troops was set round the still incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered...
...accepts his daughter's marriage to a "medicaler" with bitter resignation but he is overjoyed when she bears a boy who, he believes, will inherit the Hofnagel power. When the baby contracts diphtheria Hofnagel prevents his son-in-law from administering antitoxin by shooting him in the shoulder, kills the baby with his own mumbo-jumbo. These events are developed in a sharp atmosphere of authenticity, tautly directed by Arthur Beckhard, expert handler of family groups (Another Language). Good performances: William F. Schoeller as Hofnagel, Jules Epailly as a rival wizard, Victor Kilian as a slow-witted yokel...
...perhaps significant that there has been practically no editorial comment on this decisive victory for the administration. After waging a bitter battle for companies which are now proved to have been guilty of collusion and conspiracy, the papers might at least have the grace to exercise some of the "fair play" about which they set up such a lusty howl. Fortunately, the evidence is so incontrovertible that it does not need editorial elucidation; no one with the energy to look through it can fail to see the justice of the government's action. Even more damning than the actual evidence...
...After bitter arguments over every other point, Paraguayan and Bolivian delegates to the League of Nations peace conference on the Chaco War locked horns in Buenos Aires last week over Rutherford B. Hayes...