Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings of the San Francisco waterfront fall slightly below the high scale set by the other works, for Rubenstein does not quite seem to catch the atmosphere of the place as he does of Jerome. But once again, although many drawings were made on the scenes of bitter CIO battles, Rubenstein is to be congratulated for avoiding any trace of a political strain for one side or the other...
...message from the nation's greatest governmental monopolist finally appeared last week. A detailed request for Congressional investigation of the whole subject of monopoly as a preliminary to future legislation to curtail it, it was chiefly noteworthy for a tone as mild as Messrs. Ickes & Jackson had been bitter...
Poet Eliot frequently had to sit most of the night while Artist Lewis worked feverishly on his portrait, which shows him looking dark and bitter in a grey-blue suit. When the picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity should know me. . . . But I am glad to think that a portrait of myself is not to appear in the exhibition of the Royal Academy." Last week black-hatted, black-witted Wyndham Lewis (The Apes of God) turned up as a critic at the Academy's socialite preview...
...education in recent years has paid too much attention to methods of teaching and not enough to social problems; 2) business has been backward in adjusting itself to new technological conditions. But when they began to discuss what should be done about it, the debate grew bitter. Businessman Houston warned the educators they were flirting with dangerous, collectivistic ideas. More bluntly, Businessman Jones charged them with letting businessmen down, demanded that they do something to remove the impression prevalent among businessmen that educators were "persistently questioning the continued usefulness to society of the enterprise system...
...have fun feeding peanuts to the elephants!" comes from a young lady across the aisle, and the rest of her conversation dies in the bitter-sweet waves of the "Blue Danube...