Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chaos and revolution and had successfully beaten back the White Armies of Russian capitalism. Stalin, after maneuvering Trotsky out of office by the tactics of political bossism. still had to break the popularity which made "Trotsky" a name of power. Appointed Commissar of War was Trotsky's bitter foe, Comrade Michael Frunze. He "broke" every Trotskyist officer, but grew too powerful himself. His sudden death Stalin's enemies attribute universally to poison. Stalin's next move was to hand the Army, Navy and Air Force over to a man of whom the Soviet public had never heard...
During the three years Admiral William Veazie Pratt was Chief of Naval Operations and thus No. 1 professional in the service, he had to swallow many a bitter pill. The London Treaty (1930) put the Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority...
...first of his line to enter the doors of a college, emerges from the second volume as a Wasatch alumnus; the record of his transformation is a careful, and a revealing, one. His problems are the old problems of youth; their setting has made them more intense and more bitter. Sex and ambition and disillusionment come sharply to Vridar, whose environment has not fitted him for their solution...
...essential for him to reach a compromise as for Mayor LaGuardia. And having reached it, it was even more essential that he get the measure passed. This was no easy job. The Upper House has a Democratic majority of one, but they are mostly Tammanymen who waged a bitter fight against Lehman (& Roosevelt) two years ago. The Lower House is Republican but two factions of Repub licans spent eight days quarreling over the election of a clerk. Finally on the ninth day the Assembly got itself organized, prepared to send the Economy Bill to a special committee. When the compromise...
...charge of the U. S. Red Cross's huge military relief activities in Europe. Jones had an appointment to meet the President at Buckingham Palace, whither Wilson had gone to confer with George V. It was winter and on the way to the palace in a taxi the bitter cold seemed to centre in Jesse Jones's feet. He was shown into a small parlor where he was to meet Wilson. There he removed his shoes before a cozy fire. When the President of the U. S. unexpectedly entered the room with His Britannic Majesty, there...