Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settlement. An awkward Latin American wrinkle this year has been the bitter renewal of the eleven-year-old U. S.-Mexican quarrel over agrarian land expropriations. Last week. Secretary Hull released a cordial exchange of notes with Mexican Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay, embodying a settlement...
Having made such points as these the chains claim that the real reason behind Wright Patman's proposal is the bitter hatred which chain-store efficiency breeds in competitive wholesalers and independents. This efficiency rests upon two prime pegs - ability to buy in huge quantities and elimination of numerous wholesale and other middleman functions which add markups to food costs. Such benefits can be obtained by independents through use of supermarkets or of voluntary chains...
...Alice in Wonderland" or the wonderful persons who composed his once-treasured "Book of Knowledge." Lately however, Vag has been finding out much more about this particular man. It seems Vag missed the point of these stories of strange lands. They weren't just fairy tales; they were satire--bitter, clever, biting, calculated ridicule of the life and society of eighteenth century England. Written in beautifully flowing, powerful, yet childishly simple language, they are considered perhaps the best satires in English. It is indeed a cruel sarcasm--and society's revenge on the author--that his best works should...
...exploded in London's Surrealist Group, led by scholarly, pale-faced, silken-voiced Herbert Read, who occupies the magnificently ambiguous position of arch Surrealist apologist and editor of the Burlington Magazine, England's most conservative art publication. Presented by Professor Read, the Breton manifesto led to a bitter tiff between Communist and Trotskyist members, finally to a breakup. Last word came from Gallery Director E. L. T. Mesens, who suggested that the English Surrealists had never been worth their salt anyway, having always abstained from such direct action as driving horses into theatre foyers on first nights...
...material: the first half of Morton Thompson's front page column in the Hollywood Citizen-News. The agency: Owner-Editor Harlan Guyant Palmer. Reason: It was so complimentary to virtuous Judge Palmer it brought "unexplainable tears" to his eyes. During a bitter Guild strike five months ago the Citizen-News printed an entire column by Thompson describing "the despicable traits" of Editor Palmer...