Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday afternoon, Nov. 10, the Vestris sailed from her pier at Hoboken, with fair weather and calm sea. Yet one passenger, Carlos Quiros, chancellor of the Argentine consulate in New York, bitter in his criticism of the way the Vestris was handled, says: "She had a list when tied up at the pier before sailing. In fact, we could not sleep on Saturday...
...Linder; he wrote a play from which lamed Mae West evolved the picturesque excitement of Diamond Lil; now he has scratched up further blood and thunder about San Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years"; or, "Wong, you'll pay for this...
...Rudolph never did retire. In 1906 he turned crusader, organized and financed the war against graft in the state and city government. He promised to go on to New York, Chicago, Denver. Bitter were the attacks on his sincerity, his aims. His wife and family were insulted on the street. Son Rudolph replied that he had never voted and vowed he would never hold office. This promise he has kept. He has not yet carried the battle to the East. But he is only...
Empty Measure. If it is bitter to lose the Presidency, how much more bitter it must have been to lose one's right to run for the Presidency. His supposed ability to carry mighty New York had been the President-reject's right-to-run. Many a Democrat had regarded the Smith candidacy of 1928 as a test of what might be in 1932. Among more than 4,000,000 votes, the Hoover margin of 100,000 over Smith in New York was not numerically enormous. But psychologically it loomed as the terminus of the brief, embattled Smith...
That great Democratic vote-getter David Ignatius Walsh, Wet Catholic, retained his Senatorial Seat from Massachusetts. Also, in New York, Democratic Dr. Royal S. Copeland survived. But in New Jersey, Wet Democratic Edward I. Edwards fell before mild-faced Hamilton F. Kean. In Montana, bitter was the battle and sweet the victory for famed radical Democrat Burton K. Wheeler. But in West Virginia bitter was the battle and bitter the defeat of War Hero M. M. Neely by Republican Henry D. Hatfield...