Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standpoint of national defense; it may turn out that the graft which the layman has come to expect in public administration was even less malignant than usual. But the affair has been an excuse for setting off all the fireworks of party animosity, of corrosive personal attacks and of bitter Congressional suspicion...
...supposedly ideal performance of his father's works. A great deal of legendary glory surrounds Siegfried. He is, to begin with, the offspring of a famed romance. Richard Wagner, then entering the full flame of his success, broke with his first wife, Minna, who had shared the bitter bread of his early obscurity and poverty, became enamored of the wife of his great friend and supporter, the renowned conductor Hans von Bülow. She was the daughter of the great pianist and composer Franz Liszt. A strange and rather fearsome complication ensued. Von Bülow magnanimously renounced...
...harder Johnny Wilson (real name Giovanni Panica) pumped punches from his batteries, the faster Harry Greb attacked. After 15 rounds of bitter battle, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Greb was declared the winner. He retained thereby his middleweight championship of the world, won from Wilson last September. Greb fights like a windmill-revolving, waving, swinging, slugging. Wilson has heavier hammers in his hands but he could not hit the windmill on the head. For several rounds he battered Greb's body. Shifting his attack to points higher up, he lost his aim. Meanwhile the champion drew blood from...
There is much that is similar in the lives of the two royal unfortunates, if we accept Masefield's account. Each was queen in a strange land over an unfriendly people, each in actuality ruler; each was the largest of bitter hatred and disgusting contumely in life; each died a violent death at the hands of rebellious subjects. But there the parallel ends, for Queen Jezebel lacked in life friends or faithful servants, nor were there any to mourn her dead saving her tiring-women. A foreigner among foreigners, civilized among barbarians, of race and religion different from...
...their movement. Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of war, the first light it saw was very dark indeed, and the principle acts, or inactions, committed in its name have damned it eternally for the many heroes and heroines who have sustained through war the bitter loss of their more heroic...