Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States' rights. He turned down a Senatorship, a post as Secretary of State under George Washington, those of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and of Minister to France under John Adams. Propertied himself, Henry retired to his 2,920 acres of rolling Virginia grassland in 1795, a bitter, disappointed man, angry with his Government and its leaders. He died at Red Hill...
...resigned as director and president of the company's Argentine, Brazilian and Cuban equipment subsidiaries. Last month, three weeks before A. C. F. reported a $1,662,692 deficit for the fiscal year, Oscar Cintas, from his ritzy suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, sent a bitter letter to stockholders charging that Car & Foundry's directors were on record for only minuscule blocks of stock, while he, Oscar Cintas, was the largest individual stockholder in the company...
...made Governor by the greatest of all Virginia political bosses, Senator Thomas Staples Martin, and then sent to the Senate for a career that lasted 22 years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years and the bitter years that followed. He wangled naval appropriations, formed a lasting friendship with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, became the biggest Big Navy man in the Democratic Party. When he took office as Secretary, Washington's admirals breathed easier...
Soon this addendum cut off most U. S. arms and ammunition, including airplane parts, from the Loyalists while Generalissimo Franco continued to get most of what he wanted from the Axis. So the Spanish war went on to its bitter end and the U. S. was not involved...
When Ambrose Bierce landed in San Francisco in 1866, a tall, blue-eyed ex-Civil War officer, he showed few signs of the savage misanthropy which marked his later work. According to Author Walker's researches, Bitter Bierce's misanthropy began two years after his arrival, when he became Town Crier for the satirical News Letter. Author Walker thinks Bierce enjoyed himself almost as much as did his readers. At any rate he was never sued for libel, shot at, even taken a poke at, in a country where editors' duels were commonplace. Bierce wrote the first...