Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pervasive aroma of bitter hatred drifts through the whole picture, seeping deeper and deeper into the characters until, psychologically speaking, the sets are covered with the groaning bodies of the wounded. Perhaps the mental gore is overworked in spots, for climax follows climax with exhausting rapidity, putting considerable strain on the acting abilities of even the Misses Davis and Hopkins. Yet the conflict of their two vivid personalities--the essence of the plot--is basically so well presented that the foibles of direction and script-writing are subordinate...
...blond, fattening, ruddy man of 43 who received her summons had a bitter and significant story for Congressman Martin Dies. That worthy and his co-committeemen could have read the story at any time since 1937, when Fred Erwin Beal told all in his book, Proletarian Journey. But a detour for Prisoner Beal from North Carolina to Washington made more headlines for Mr. Dies, focused national attention on an episode which shamed U. S. Communists long before Joseph Stalin signed with Adolf Hitler...
Recently, the Oregon Emerald announced in 72 point streamer headlines: "OU GETS DRUM MAJORESS." The action came as a result of a bitter controversy which had rocked the student body, faculty, and administration for months on end. There was plenty of reason for the Emerald to sensationalize the outcome, because it meant that Oregon had finally allowed the Pacific Coast Conference to go one hundred per cent for drum majorettes...
Certainly a member of the Harvard teaching staff should know that experience is the greatest teacher. But it is evident that Professor McLaughlin learned little from that most bitter lesson, the World War. Indeed, he rushes blindly into the most high-flown assumptions, such as the belief that truth travels with the British navy. Before making such indiscreet statements, he might well study the historical background of this nation, and re-examine the problems of today in its light. He would then find that the propagandists of the last war wrote better than they knew, that the only war this...
...curtain in a Broadway playhouse went up, several years ago, on an Alaskan valley and a colony of bankrupt, wrangling, hopeful, bewildered, bitter Midwesterners transplanted there by the U. S. Government. The play was called 200 Were Chosen. Act I-"This is the Matanuska Valley-best little "valley in South Alaska. The Government brung you here and it's gonna...