Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support through the sleepy conduct of the campaign within the University. Their combined membership includes fewer than one thousand men. In the CRIMSON's poll of 1924 over four thousand five hundred votes were cast. The three-cornered battle of four years ago will hardly be rated as less bitter and less sturdily fought in the nation than the 1928 contest; and unless indifference has wedged its way into a tremendous number of students since that year, the undergraduate clubs have sadly failed to rise to a point be fitting the circumstances...
...great monastic manor that had belonged to the Archbishop, then to Henry VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke when in a mirror she watched him make merry with a court wanton...
Cartoons usually go to the other extreme. Their use is chiefly destructive, to ridicule and depreciate the other side's men and issues. The national campaign of 1928 has been notably a campaign of cartoons for two reasons: The issues are sharp and bitter; and both sides have ruled out what Nominee Smith called "baloney" pictures ?posed photographs of the Nominees digging on farms, milking cows, kissing babies...
...With bitter pen he wrote: "Thomas Bat'a is the Henry Ford of Shoes. . . . But Ford, in comparison with Bat'a, is a model of uprightness and humanity. . . . Zlin, the Bat'a Shoe City, is a second Detroit, but a Detroit with low wages. . . . Bat'a speeds up his workers to greater and yet greater output . . . shameless exploitation . . . lower wages than in other Czechoslovakian shoe factories . . . wanton exploitation of the workers, mostly young men and women...
That a bastard could keep a bitter bargain when an emperor of the blood could not, is the thrilling tale which Author Preedy tells in all the sharp contrast of two disparate natures. With ingenious charm he answers an enigma of European history, enriching it with intriguing rogues, loyal soldiers, a soothsayer, an acrid duchess, and a golden-haired damsel who sets a light at her bedroom window...