Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boyish, diffident James Barton Carey, secretary of C. I. 0. and president of its electrical union. Vice President Philip Murray was gravely on his dignity, as becomes a crown prince. Bronzed with a Florida tan, recovered from pneumonia, Vice President Sidney Hillman backslapped one & all. Mooning about like a bitter rabbit was little Alien Harry Bridges, whose services to C. I. O. on the West Coast may be terminated by deportation proceedings next week...
Today, newspapermen look to Philadelphia for excitement and sometimes jobs. J. David Stern is now its senior publisher. It now has only four papers (not counting the pipsqueak tabloid News) and they are engaged in a bitter struggle for survival. Reading from Left to Right, Philadelphia's papers are the morning Record and Inquirer, the evening Ledger and Bulletin. All were making news last week...
Editor Barclay's bitter conclusion: to small businesses the Wagner Act "denies the right of a free trial and imposes only one alternative choice: economic suicide...
When the romance begins to wane, when Monk begins brooding over love's "bitter mystery," then not even the most extravagant prophet could anticipate the window-rattling violence and savagery of these lovers' quarrels, the crazed sadism of Monk's accusations, or the deadly criticism that Mrs. Jack shoots back. Because she always comes back for more, however, because they make up from time to time and declare "Was there ever love like ours?" it is a long time before the final parting. Near the end Monk makes his bitterest accusation: "I've lost my squeal...
...want to paw him. At the U. S. Embassy, far from the maddened mob, he met earnest, poetic, adventurous Anne Morrow. With earnest, adventurous (but not poetic) Charles Lindbergh she had much in common. After their wedding at Englewood his war with the press grew more bitter. Newshawks and cameramen hounded them on their honeymoon. A few weeks later in a mass interview, a reporter asked Lindbergh whether his wife was pregnant yet. He whitened with anger...