Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little further Left politically but still bitter-end craft unionists are such...
...racing for the America's Cup has been a bitter and disappointing experience to British challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, the past summer has proved even more distressing to his partner in the aircraft business: bluff, sixtyish Frederick Sigrist. After building the yacht Endeavour II for his second Cup challenge, Mr. Sopwith prevailed upon Mr. Sigrist to charter his previous challenger, Endeavour I, from its new owner, Commodore H. A. Andreae of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, help him bear the expense of taking both boats to the U. S. as alternative challengers. En route, Endeavour I slipped...
...rapid germinating properties and extremely virulent effects. To the half-savage, wholly uneducated peasantry, it was known simply as "the Blight," and regarded as a hellish, heaven-sent scourge. Holy-water and incantation were the only remedies invoked against it. Its onset marked the beginning of perhaps the most bitter famine in post-medieval European history...
...handle drunks, raucous, tearful or belligerent; comparative analyses of drunks, male and female; how to tell when a fight is brewing and how to stop it. Collectors of contemporary Americana should note that the book contains an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Largely made up of veiled, bitter aspersions on ladies who run salons and write memoirs, it is only too apparently another reply to Gertrude Stein's strictures on Hemingway in her Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas...
...evening editions, reminded the Guild of the contract between the Eagle and the International Typographical Union, in effect until June 30, 1938. Failing to shut the plant, the Guild solicited funds by radio for its eleventh strike since it was founded in 1933, dug in for a long and bitter labor struggle...