Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week General Adolfo de la Huerta, once for a brief time Provisional President of Mexico, now in bitter exile at Los Angeles, Calif., said: "I lament the passing of Obregon, because I would have liked to have had him live long enough to pay for his many sins...
...long and bitter debate ensued. The Marquess of Salisbury, speaking for His Majesty's Government, earnestly besought Their Lordships not to oppose a bill which Conservative farmers had been promised by Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, himself a landed country squire and rabbit owner...
June 17: Capt. Roald Amundsen, famed explorer, once companion of Pilgrim Nobile but now his bitter enemy, starts from Norway in a French seaplane with crew of four Frenchmen, one Norwegian...
...leadership of a sect of fanatics who confessed, screamed, rolled in mystic joy. In a country-wide revival his converts rivalled Elmer Gantry's in emotional displays, but his own motive and reaction, unlike Elmer Gantry's, are recorded in art and not in bitter propaganda. Author Davies has crudities,of technique, but not of sympathy. A difficult undertaking, this analysis of the tortures of a sensitive man, harassed by women, consumed by religious mania, ends wretchedly when Reuben finds both lacking...
Capt. Sir James Charles, 33-year veteran and Commodore of the Cunard fleet, brought the flagship Aquitania through a bitter gale, "one of the worst ever," on his last westward passage. A graduate of the wind-jammers, he has crossed the North Atlantic 726 times, covered 2,323,200 nautical miles. Much-respected, much-loved, burly Capt. Sir James retires to grow cabbages...