Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill that preceded the Coolidge landslide of 1924. Mr. Mellon's name was on it. Sometimes it is said that the name of Mellon is anathema to the farmers. If that is so, it is not reflected in the Secretary's mail, yet public men who have bitter enemies usually hear from them directly. The fact is that when Secretary Mellon talked about the Presidency, the country listened almost as respectfully as if President Coolidge were speaking-more respectfully, in the case of the politicians...
Archbishop Drossaerts, as he said these words, was speaking to people whose minds were filled with a thousand small and bitter pictures. He and they could remember the stories that are told across the border, of the malign and treacherous determination with which Mexican officials pursue Roman Catholics. In circulation are the stories...
...thunderous detonations of Japanese artillery and the merciless rattle of Japanese machine guns taught Chinese a bitter lesson last week. They learned once and for all that Imperial Japan will not permit Chinamen to carry on their incessant civil wars in Shantung, a Chinese province, but the home of numerous Japanese colonists. Tsinan is the capital of Shantung. From Tsinan efficient professional Japanese troops drove, last week, ten times their number of ragged, nondescript Chinese soldiery. Right or wrong, the Japanese Commander, General Fukuda, struck blow after crushing blow with a mailed fist constituted by 5,000 Japanese troops which...
...Escape. The big city is where men drink raw liquids, where women are ruined, where everybody comes to a bitter end in a little black box. But the hero (William Russell) and the heroine (Virginia Valli), after typical experiences in a night club, escape just in time to the country...
...extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...