Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leaping Parson's congregation of 375,000 motor workers has never been noted for its spirit of brotherly love. Indeed, rampant factionalism waxed so bitter at the union's Milwaukee convention last August that John L. Lewis had to arrange a paternal compromise between the Martin faction and the militant "unity" leaders (TIME, Sept. 6). Since that compromise settled almost nothing, President Martin proceeded to settle the squabble in his own fashion...
...Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goring who simply moved in fortnight ago, brusquely announcing: "Any further Government role by Dr. Schacht-even as Acting Minister of Economics-is out of the question!" Last week at the Ministry for Propaganda and National Enlightenment, headed by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a bitter rival of General Goring, word was put about that "Hitler has turned down the draft text of a 'hold for release' press announcement of Dr. Schacht's resignation on the ground that nothing has been decided...
Landis, one of the most prominent of Felix Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs," was expected to prove a radical zealot. Instead, he mellowed under the mantle of office. Some of his oldtime liberal colleagues became bitter (he was eventually attacked by the New Republic), catalogued him as a conservative, denounced him for having lunched with Wall Street bigwigs. Although he worked prodigiously to keep the SEC's complex mechanism functioning, he did not launch any great crusade...
...popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep South, its lynch-life melodrama ending in a fierce finale...
...should be obvious that something more pot-cut and more pleasant than rather bitter orange juice will be necessary to drive the Freshmen to drink. Yours very truly, James Clark...