Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before last month's Winter Olympic Games, the Amateur Athletic Union and the American Olympic Committee were stirred by bitter controversy as to whether the U. S. should send a team to Nazi Germany. While the games were going on, reports agreed that they were accompanied by controversies, disagreed as to how serious these were. Last week the games were reviewed by two responsible sports authorities who had seen them...
...pity, in showing a life without sympathy. For Peter Franzman has no understanding from nature, no, nor from one living soul. Tantalizingly an understanding between Peter and his mother, Peter and a child sweetheart, Peter and the Mennonite patriarch is lead up to, then remorselessly refused, leaving a bitter taste of unreality. Every living being is a flamethrower, a rifle, spurting flame into the souls of all those around him. The war is incidental, a puny manifestation of the searing of souls that is mankind's occupation. But it serves to crystalize the solitariness that is to be the life...
When fire flared in a private garage next door to his Evanston (Ill.) residence, Charles Gates Dawes stomped out into bitter cold, cheered the firemen...
...perched on a chair to receive autograph hounds. Young Felix was scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
...post-War tranquillity. Now, even for Veteran Sassoon, the War is long over. In middle-age (he is 49), he lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently minor poems that will seem old-fashioned to most readers of 1936. Of the 35 poems in Vigils, not one will taste bitter, few will have much taste at all to literary palates accustomed to present-day poetic diet. To ageing Poet Sassoon, even the War is now hardly more than a misty memory...