Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perhaps to illustrate this, the President last week personally urged Congressman Hatton Sumners of Texas, bitter foe of the Supreme Court Plan, to serve on the Monopoly Investigation, chairmanned by Senator O'Mahoney, another Court Plan...
...failures was to get the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. business. On this attempt, strangely, he was accompanied by his father's bitter political critic, Congressman Hamilton Fish, a director of one of the insurance companies represented by Jimmy. Loud Mr. Fish did the talking and President Walter S. Gifford of A. T. & T. was not helpful...
...cigaret was Rube and Mac's baby and if they valued the friendship they would help. Dealers were delighted to help because at the moment they were nursing a grudge against the "Big Four," whose prices (and dealer profit margins) in 1933 were at new lows in a bitter price battle with the ten-cent brands...
Fortnight ago, at the fourth annual convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, Lundeberg's seamen accompanied by licensed officers and firemen walked out when the meeting refused to seat delegates of a Tacoma local of A. F. of L. longshoremen, Harry Bridges' bitter enemies. Also grieved because Harry Bridges has eagerly taken shoreside unions into the Maritime Federation, Lundeberg snorted: "We don't want any more cannery workers telling us what...
...humor, carefully pulling off the wings and legs of a fly. To shut the mouth of one of his own gang, Pinkie, pushes him off a staircase. Before long he is on a murder merry-go-round. But his worst experience, the high point of a lifetime's bitter humiliation, is when, in order to insure the waitress' loyalty, he has to suffer the hideous pangs of marriage...