Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter complaint on the part of Mrs. Logan over the picture to which the Institute's committee had awarded the Logan prize (Doris Lee's Thanksgiving) won Mrs. Logan a surprising amount of space in the U. S. press (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935, et seq.). Since then she has appointed herself a champion of academic painting in the U. S., and the fullest explanation of her position to date is Sanity...
Editor Snow admits his translations are very free, admits also that he has freely used his blue pencil, because even pai-hua is too discursive for occidental taste. Open-eyed readers of Living China will find these stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...
...many pro-Roosevelt newspapers which now oppose the Court proposal. Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, leader of the pro-Court wing among Senate Democrats, declared: "If the President thinks that . . . those 'defeatist lawyers'.. . are the only ones ... he is sadly mistaken. The most bitter opposition to the plan is from people who wholeheartedly supported the President last November...
Senator Henry Parkman, Jr. '15 has been active during the past 17 years as an advocate of constructive government and as a bitter critic of ex-Governor Curley. After graduating from law school and serving in France as a Captain in the army, he opened a law practice in Boston, became a city councilman in Boston and then won a seat in the statehouse...
...harvest of bitter strikes which General Motors rasped this winter started some second thought in its councils, which led to the dismissal of the agency. This public pillory of one company must be impelling the others to reconsider the wisdom of bossing the workmen by fear and distrust, for the cost of spies is great and the increment from their use is disastrous. If it is important that the executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors...