Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day the President bad the pleasure of driving the electric locomotive of his train for twelve miles- down the steep grade of the St. Joseph River and the fire-charred slopes of the Bitter Root Mountains...
Germans who accept our bowl of Quaker Soup with a " bitter chuckle...
...hardly question her sincerity. She probably believes she has chosen a path where others may see her walking and heed the solitary figure as a warning. Yet her advisers all along have dressed the proceeding with most offensive taste. The strident commercialism of their advertising thrusts the bitter story on every billboard in the country. At the New York opening was included the " dance of the Addicts "; a group of figures writhed and postured under lights of ghastly green, adding a final touch that seemed almost to turn again the turf above a grave...
...Bitter anti-Zionism that results in the brutal murder of British Bobbies...
Though he spends his life poking fun at the foibles of mankind, he seldom makes a bitter remark about a friend. As an after dinner speaker, he is successful; but not at Rotary Clubs. I think of him as a combination of H. L. Mencken and Martin Luther. Yet he is not fanatical in his humorous creeds. He is writing a serious novel in which he firmly believes, and has written a play which, he tells us, was neither humorous, serious nor good; but then, Mr. Stewart, among many other things, is a modest...