Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Missionaries do not conform to the customs of the natives.- (y) They are lavish in their mode of living.- (b) To the Mohammedans and Budhists, and even to the ignorant heathen, the Christianity of the missionaries is not very attractive.- (x) The missionaries present the Christianity infected with the bitter internal animosities of numerous opposing sects.- (y) Missionaries constantly squabble among themselves, either for more preferment from home, or for more influence among the natives.- (z) The natives are confronted with the undignified rivalry of two or three hundred societies-all pulling for converts...
...members of the Yale eleven are pictured as if professional sluggers. If this had happened but once or twice we could be kind hearted enough to forgive what was perhaps said in bitter disappointment. But the constantly repeated charges from the athletic representatives and the college press, have now become so numerous and have reached such a climax that something must be done if the reputation of this university is not to be lessened in the eyes of the outside public. It is with no idea of vindicating any individual or individuals that the letter has been written, but, first...
...first play at the age of seventeen. He continued to write for forty years. Of his comedies eleven are extant besides fragments of thirty-three others. His plays are purely fanciful, as their names suggest. They contain lampoons upon the public men of the day which are sometimes bitter and always witty...
...game of football is not free from startlingly objectionable features. The moment that game is clouded by any whisper of bitter personal animosity or intentional violence, or unfairness, it degrades the game, those who play it and the crowds of spectators who give it their approval...
None the less we believe that the members of the team have made every effort for victory, and that this is to be recognized even when the disappointment over the result of their efforts is most keen and bitter. Such honest endeavor is worthy of high honor...