Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major, who is principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford, England, has devoted the William Belden Noble Lectures this December to Modernism, the center of bitter controversy in the Church of England for the past 20 years. As champion of this movement in its attack on the conservative wing of the church Dr. Major has edited the "Modern Churchman," which he founded 15 years ago. In his lectures so far Dr. Major has outlined the history of Modernism and its present relationship to the Christian Church...
...borne him an heir (TIME, Oct. 26). One month ago it chronicled the "promotion" of handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to the rank of Queen, adding that a royal birth, the first in Siam for 32 years, was shortly expected (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week it deplored amid bitter lamentations a swift two-edged blow of fate...
...bitter little story of little intellects and great ambitions under the Manhattan elevated...
...over seventy years old, his entire life is devoted to affairs, which he loves with a passion, whether they be great or small: or, rather, there are none for him of this latter class." Indeed, neither business disasters which impaired his fortune, the bitter calumnies of a few political enemies, nor his private grief at the death of his wife and of his son Joseph, worn out in the service, could deter this stalwart patriot from giving the fullest measure of service to the cause in which he had a high and reverend faith...
...that Paris took Helen (and some of the furniture) against her will, but that she never went to Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...