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Word: bitterness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath that surface raged the first bitter skirmishes of what may be the greatest legislative battle since the 1919 Senate fight over ratification of the Versailles Treaty and entrance of the U. S. into the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Michigander | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...rules. It is an unexampled chronicle of the years 1932-35 in U. S. Government (the last four of his seven years he was on the outside looking in); rich in broken confidences, intimate quotations, facts from the political bedroom. It could have come only from a bitter, frustrated, able man who once was close to the President. By letting the Saturday Evening Post serialize 100,000 of his 190,000 words, Raymond Moley did not make things any better with his outraged successors in the Janizariat. They belittle it as the garrulous grousing of a "shellshocked veteran," note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Moley's Hymn | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...until 1920 did Pilsudski insure Polish independence by smashing Russia's invasion; not until 1926 was Poland's political regime stable and its budget balanced. Thus Poland had only 13 years of reconstruction. Ten of them were years of bitter, world-wide depression. In these years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The End | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...There's a word for you," says Joan Crawford to Norma Shearer after losing a bitter battle to vamp the latter's spouse, "but they only use it in kennels." This briefly is the tenor of "The Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

BETRAYAL IN CENTRAL EUROPE-G. E. R. Gedye-Harper ($3.50). Fluent, heated, colorful account of Austria from 1925 through Anschluss, with a bitter windup on Czecho-Slovakia, by the much-expelled foreign correspondent of the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Background for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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