Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt had called him the ally of "bosses and corruptionists" and when Senator Wheeler, shaking a long lean finger at his enemy, had croaked: "Lay on Macduff and damned be he that first cries Hold, Enough," the Senate had seen a very bitter scene of personal animosity...
...establish the status quo ante. The New Deal wants to do precisely that-as a matter of fact it is status quo George III or Diocletian. The process has not attained the label of 'liberal.' . . . They are dumdum words used to assassinate men and then to plant bitter onions on their graves...
Strikes in the nation's silk mills usually raise a far louder racket than the whirring spindles and clattering shuttles which stop because of them. Feuds between employe and employer have almost always been bitter, sometimes bloody. Ever since last May, when energetic little Sidney Hillman, able, Lithuanian-born chief of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving...
...airport office and twice used airport phones to call headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that it was unable to understand how airport officials remained oblivious of the action. But Eastern Air, whose hard-bitten General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker sped to the spot, presently issued a bitter statement completely exonerating the flight personnel and putting the blame squarely on the power company. A damage suit seemed highly probable...
What critics chiefly noted, aside from, an extremely wide range of merit, was a truce in the bitter factionalism which has characterized Chicago art since modernism first burst upon it in 1913. No one was heard of who refused to contribute because an enemy was represented, and painters with grim sociological messages did not stand off in a corner and poke fun at the "Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club...