Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortune-hunters and a Reno cowhand, and she still puts her faith in "l'Amour." Mary Haines, hoping until the last that her husband will call her back, succeeds in sending home the youngest of the Women (Adrienne Marsden) without a divorce. Mary herself is doomed to two bitter years as a divorcee before her chance comes in a laudably natural denouement to turn the tables on the second Mrs. Haines and get back her man, this time for keeps...
...decision in the U. S. District Court in Boston last week terminated a long and bitter fight between dressmakers and department stores. Trouble came into the open last February when the Fashion Originators' Guild of America, patrolling the dress trade against style piracy, cracked down on R. H. White department store, owned by Boston's famed Wm. Filene's Sons Co., for harboring stolen styles (TIME, March 23). Members of the Guild refused to fill orders from White's or Filene's. Promptly Filene's charged the Guild with conspiracy in restraint of trade...
...BITTER VICTORY-Louis Guilloux-McBride...
...become a U. S. citizen. Condemned to death as a pacifist during the War, he was let off with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis, the swinish profiteer and his fat mistresses. He escaped Nazi concentration camps by going to the U. S. in 1932 to teach at the Art Students...
...explained that he was trying to forget his bitter disappointment at not being allowed to go panda hunting. He was ordered to report to the U. S. District Attorney every three days. Next news of William Harkness reached the U. S. nearly a year later. He had died, aged 33, in a Shanghai hospital, of cancer of the throat...