Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spread rapidly, fanned by bitter winds. A general alarm was sounded. Out of the theatres stumbled blinking creatures whose sham emotions were slowly growing real. Clerks put on their shoes and hurried through the streets to office buildings, to rescue documents and typewriters. Traffic became a honking confusion of motorists from surrounding towns, attracted by a hellish red in the sky, visible for 20 miles. A group of enterprising young men started removing papers from the City Hall. Police stopped them. Salvation Army workers served coffee and sandwiches to the firemen. The Elks held open house. All through the night...
...ning that the evening swishes suavely past like a cat in silk pajamas. There are several shrewd helpers and an excellent back stage device to counterfeit the rattles of artillery deploying before the palace in the embattled second act. Mr. Sherwood has contributed much high nonsense, nota bly a bitter game of checkers between the King and a gravely obese footman...
...point of agreement between President Cosgrave of Ireland and his bitter opponent De Valera, leader of the Sinn Fein, has been a common desire to see Gaelic culture and the Gaelic language predominant in the newly autonomous state. In Wales, recently a similar movement has gained official recognition; and Welsh, which is still the only language of some hundred thousand people, has become the medium of instruction in the majority of the public schools. But this revivefication of language and culture is but a phase of the nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China...
...Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...important and less conspicuous. Author Simpson nearly cracks a harder nut than the one Author Kennedy so easily pried apart. The ties that bind her twins are not such simple ones of sympathy and affection; her tragedy, confused with fortune tellers, horoscopes, telepathic visions is a more subtle, more bitter but less potent mixture...