Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove that he holds no bitter feeling against the Crimson for spoiling Yale's otherwise undefeated season in football, Ducky Pond, the Eli mentor, will present Dick Harlow, with a prized Cassowary egg this Saturday when Pond comes to Boston...
...life had been full of excesses. When he was not involving himself with various women, he wrote operas and attacked critics who had been particularly bitter against his revolutionary music. Any unfavorable criticism was unfair and the man responsible was either intentionally malicious or else bribed. Few of his friends lasted long, their friendship often depending on whether they were willing and able to lend him money. An egoist through and through, he hated men who disagreed with him, and accepted those who flattered him. Nothing outside his own life, his own problems, interested him--the music of others...
Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned...
Amid an uproar of dispute on parliamentary procedure, and a bitter battle over the issues, the Harvard Student Union finally recorded a favorable 5636 vote on the first platform of the Vassar program providing for active measures against aggressor nations...
...abandon a large number of animals they had never owned. Without the animals they no longer had need of chimerical cages in which to keep them, so those were also listed as abandoned-so were wagons, horses and railroad cars. "Bridgeport, Conn.," said Mr. Burns in a rather bitter mood, "must have resembled a jungle when the circus moved from there to new winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. in 1927. Income tax returns for that year show the abandonment of 46 elephants, 23 camels, 23 lions, 18 bears, hundreds of monkeys and some 800 horses...