Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cling to your flesh and bone, 0 heart, and bear your bitter leaf...
...Bitter but sensitive and attractive foliage, Poet Holden's 77 new lyrics are written in a choosy, pressed-flower language that ensures entrance into many poetical anthologies, few human lives. But in spite of Natural History's, painstakingly sterilized language, the book has several narrow escapes-as in The Linden Boughs Are Bare, Proud, Unhoped-for Light-from being contagiously good...
...against President Roosevelt's $5,000,000,000 anti-depression drive charged today that Communists throughout the country are spreading propaganda in favor of the legislation. The charges, which followed administration accusations that propaganda against the program is being organized on a "chain letter" basis, plunged the House into bitter debate during a session of less than three hours...
...bosses of the Van Sweringen empire set put to simplify Allegheny's elaborate holding company substructure, have been lost in the woods ever since. Last fall's market crash forced Mr. Kolbe to liquidate his Alleghany holdings; the other two survived only to face a bitter attack by Wall Street wolves...
...Revolution, speculators during the War. Notes left by Gorki suggest that Samghim was to come to feel a personal hatred of Lenin, and to die in the Bolshevik seizure of power. Like the earlier volumes, The Specter is crowded with philosophic and political speculations, with scenes of suicides and bitter intellectual quarrels, with an oppressive boredom, which is the one sensation Clim Samghim feels strongly. Although The Specter is not likely to impress U. S. readers as a novel, the massive work of which it is part may well stand as a record of Russian intellectual life, for if Clim...