Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across-the-board rationing; higher taxes for everyone; no Government spending on such luxuries as social legislation. That would bring lower prices at the corner grocery. It would also mean lower wages, lower profits, and lower farm income. Whether or not the U.S. people were willing to swallow such bitter medicine, neither political party would'dare prescribe it in an election year...
...brother Carl-a big, amiable murderer, who carried a red bandanna and dressed like a hayseed-had been ambushed and killed by a machine-gunner last fall. Of the three brothers who had held Southern Illinois in fief during the noisy years of Prohibition, only Earl, grey-haired and bitter-mouthed, was left...
...behind these smiling faces and smitten backs were sullen tempers that threatened to ignite a partisan hotfoot and turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
Miss Dietrich, at her best, is a past mistress of sardonic comedy and of low-life glamor, and if this picture really handled what it pretends to, she could probably have done herself proud; instead, she is required to sing such pseudo-bitter cabaret ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur used to have a nice knack for comedy; now & then it still clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky...
...cause; and if they appear ill-minded, to watch them narrowly . . ." Among the early "Rules and Regulations of Harvard College," issued at about the same time, was one enjoining students to "be slow to speak, and eschew not only oaths, lies and uncertain rumours, but likewise all idle, foolish, bitter scoffing, frothy, wanton words and offensive gestures...