Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three factions divided the Left Wing of U. S. politics. Biggest and strongest of the three was the Left's Left headed by Norman Thomas, twice Socialist nominee for President. This faction two years ago, after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee...
...historic bad blood that exists between Frenchmen and Germans is no more bitter than the hatred between French Socialists and French Royalists. Last week furious Editor Charles Maurras of the Royalist Action Française was led into a Paris court to answer charges that an editorial of his had incited Frenchmen to attack rich Socialist Leader Leon Blum, who is slated next week to become France's first Jewish Premier. Three months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give...
...political chaplain but as President Roosevelt's personal Richelieu. "It is to be an evangelical cam-paign," predicted Van Slyke. "Mr. Roosevelt will preach sugary sermons on brotherly love and the new social order, without making the direct appeal to class distinction and class hatreds as obvious and bitter as in his spring speeches. The new line is to be highly idealistic, so lofty that mere matters of budgets and taxes, debts and New Deal failures will be made to appear crude and vulgar. . . . The chief custodian of this plan of action ... is Dr. Stanley High...
...Canadian Mounted writen by James Curwood and just what you'd imagine. Conrad Veidt stars in the Fine Arts presentation of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", the ancient Jerome K. Jerome allegorical story telling about the bringing of sweetness and light into the lives of a bitter boarding house crew; for those with a quaint sense of humor...
This is a bitter blow to the old guard who remember how good the pump water was and how people came from all over Cambridge to get it. But the new guard maintains that water drawn from the ground now would not be as pure as it was then...