Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under a bitter and gusty east wind blowing out of Siberia and gathering momentum as it shrilled across Russia, Europe's highly domesticated inhabitants shivered, caught colds, froze to death, were snowbound and frostbitten. London, Paris and Berlin reported the coldest December weather in 47, 61 and 80 years respectively. Worst cold was in Scandinavia and eastern Europe: Norway reported 25° below zero Fahrenheit. Poland 27, Russia 45, and Novo-Sibirsk, Siberia...
...religion, the two outstanding figures of 1938 were in sharp contrast save for their opposition to Adolf Hitler. One of them, Pope Pius XI, 81, spoke with "bitter sadness" of Italy's anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...
...transforming it into a floating refrigerator. Then he assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer; a doctor and his wife, a Parisian hairdresser who filled her trunk with useless sport clothes; a mechanic and his wife; about 25 common seamen and lobstermen. Another bad mistake de Boers made before setting out from sunny St. Malo, France last...
...mind of many a famous man lurks the question of what figure he will cut in History. That was the concern of the last bitter years of Napoleon; it worried vain Frederick the Great; it troubled Lincoln. Franklin Roosevelt, who has long had an eye on his own place in history, last week made plans to occupy...
Here Come the Clowns (by Philip Barry; produced by Eddie Dowling) is not, as the title suggests, a lighthearted comedy, but the bitter, twisted story of a modern Job. Sceneshifter Dan Clancy (Eddie Dowling) has been blinded in one eye, has lost his home, his job, his child, and been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding...