Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down their heritage. In much the same manner the classes which frolicked around the tree and solemnly planted the ivy shoot will bridge the gap and be reincarnated in the Class of 1928 which like all classes which have preceded it today smiles us last smile before drinking the bitter draught of departure...
...legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
...life of valets, and books, and motor cars, but no friends. This might soon have palled had he not become further involved with his benefactor-who did not die after all. Years before, the exciting climax to Lord Ardrington's checkered career in South America had been a bitter trick played on his two partners, villains both. These two worked their way to prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington...
...deluges in the last decade: such as that caused by Mr. Fitzgerald in "This Side of Paradise"; and that of the mysterious Mr. Fabian in his happily titled "Flaming Youth." The difference between these and the Hemingway opus was one of starkness and futility; they were romantic--Hemingway was bitter. They wept copiously at their own naughtiness; Hemingway, dry-eyed and sardonic, merely described the catastrophe and agreed with Gertrude Stein that this was indeed "a lost generation...
...honey of the grave. But still, if the free intellectual inquiry of the past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking with Romanistic and esthetic mysticism should shed no very tasteful fruit. Since the student rarely feels the great sorrows and trials of the bitter depths vaguely referred to as life, the support of the church can seldom rise above the low level of sustaining organ recitals before examinations. And since the crown of youth is its searching self-reliance in the matters of conduct and God, any relinquishment of that independence in emotional self...