Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Bishop (Lionel At will), a savage sugar plantation owner who runs his cumbrous mill with slave power. Peter Blood is promoted from the mill when he successfully treats the governor's gout, but he does not forget his wretched comrades. Meanwhile his insolence has earned the bitter hatred of Bishop and the affections of Bishop's niece Arabella (Olivia De Havilland...
...through the one door of the room, firemen chopped holes through the eight-inch concrete ceiling, poured in water which cascaded down to the lower floors, ruined the paneling in Postmaster General Farley's swank reception room. Washington firefighters, some 40 of whom were overcome by smoke, were bitter because they have to put out fires in Federal buildings
Dear Nancy Brown: So much has happened since I last wrote you. I think it was when my baby boy had died and my Golden Girl was bitter over the expected arrival of another. Well, I'm all alone now. . . . JUST...
Died, Walter Liggett, writer (Bawdy Boston, The Rise of Herbert Hoover), muckraking editor of the Midwest American, loud & bitter foe of Minnesota's Governor Floyd B. Olson; of bullet wounds inflicted by gunmen as he stepped out of his car; in Minneapolis. Last month he was acquitted of a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl after he had branded the charge a frameup by Olson forces. After the shooting police arrested a night club proprietor and a onetime liquor runner, charged them with the murder...
...with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy of their writing, he succeeds in skimming the surface of fierce English intellectual quarrels as if unaware of their existence. Despite this tendency to linger over the elementary aspects of a writer's career, to pass over bitter political and cultural disputes, Prophets and Poets is an informative and handy book, contains occasional insights of the sort that reveal the freshness of a foreign approach to familiar material...