Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major possibility remains, the Italian debt settlement. This will meet opposition in the Senate as bitter and perhaps more forceful than it met in the House. Attempts have been made to line up the Democrats against it, but until recently these attempts have not succeeded. A number of prominent Democrats, notably Messrs. Underwood, Glass and Bruce, have stood out against making a fight on this issue. The Administration has stood solidly behind the settlement, contending not only that it is the best that can be got, but the only way of insuring any money at all from Italy. A combination...
...ensuing centuries of cutthroat European misgovernment, during which Spanish Catholicism was imported and constituted a serious drain upon the purses of the ungently "converted" Mexicans. The Spaniards were followed by equally unscruplous adventurers, many in foreign pay. With the decades, such Mexicans as retained a national consciousness acquired a bitter hatred and distrust of all foreigners. They also developed the unlovely characteristics of a people too long oppressed...
...Reformed might be termed modernist, the Orthodox fundamentalist. Between the two is the Conservative, a compromise which varies with the constitutions and by-laws of the particular congregation. Sometimes the determining on the fine points of such compromise creates bitter controversy (TIME, Mar. 30, RELIGION...
Here is her trouble when Brand and Emma reach her in response to her summons: Elliott is days late in returning. Something has surely happened, probably to the boy. Wracked already, she is bitter with hate for Elliott when he does appear, dry-mouthed, caked with dust, to say he has lost Jackie in the trackless, beast-run hunting veld, lost him completely. There is a nightmare of searching. Mary's baby is born, prematurely but alive, in a desert railway shed. The boy is not found. Back on the farm, Mary's hatred for Elliott shades into insane belief...
...mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined was she to excite notice and envy that when she met a mild-mannered young English secretary in Cape Town, she invented for him a grand character, paraded him in Lebanon, married...