Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This adventure he related in a book, To Lhasa in Disguise. With a few Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones...
Died. Joseph Bradley David. 74, since 1916 judge of Cook County, Ill., Superior & Criminal Court benches; of heart disease; in Chicago. Bitter foe of Prohibition, easy divorce, the Ku Klux Klan, Judge David once tossed out of court a proposed injunction against fan dances. Said he: "Lots of people in this community would like to put pants on horses...
MONTREAL. QUE., Feb 21--Taking deliberately illegal action in their fight for freedom of speech at the college, the McGill Union tonight voted to allow a communist leader to speak in a proposed address at McGill, after a long and bitter debate...
...Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot."-As You Like...
...empires fell on this grease spot, meditates Poet Pound, takes bitter note of Napoleon and others of his heroes who took a stick to usury and either failed to catch it, or ended up impaled. Most readers will agree that Poet Pound's attack on usury succeeds in giving some sinister validity to the Hell that in earlier Cantos appeared merely grotesquely dull and* dirty. Outside Hell all is as beautiful as ever...