Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independent Government boards and agencies that have taken over much of the lawmaker's function should be no more arbitrary than other lawmakers. If Fighter Frankfurter's enthusiasm for drawing this line inconveniences red hot New Dealers, at 56 Felix Frankfurter may still be in a bitter fight after he joins the Supreme Court...
...searchers combed the farm lands nearby, the bitter cold weather became too much for Foster May and he ducked into a small, lighted shack to warm up. Inside, another man was toasting himself. The man recognized May, they chatted briefly, and then May left to join the chase. Outside an idea suggested itself. Back went May and began asking pointed questions. The man stirred himself wearily...
...nostalgic account of his first 21 years. Those who read his latest poems, Vigils (1936), will be prepared for this serene counterpart in prose. To most other readers Siegfried Sassoon is still associated with 1) his realistic war trilogy (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, etc.) and his bitter war poems (CounterAttack, etc.); 2) his spectacularly murderous heroism in the trenches (in order, he once told Robert Graves, "to keep up the good reputation of the poets"); and 3) his equally spectacular pacifism, when in 1917 he threw his Military Cross into the sea, publicly denounced the "political errors...
Hurling blistering charges into the Brookline political arena, Paul Kerins '41, who turned 21 three days ago and is growing a moustache to prove it, has launched what he calls a "bitter campaign with the gloves off" for a seat on the Brookline School Committee...
...They must justify their stand, or confess ignorance of what's been going on," he said last night. "If they do the latter, I'll ask them to withdraw gracefully from the contest. As a matter of fact, I expect either to be completely ignored or subjected to a bitter personal attack...