Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Special features of the dinner will be the showing of either Karl Dane in "Rookies," or Sidney Chaplin in "The Bitter 'Ole." A news reel will follow...
...forger, a robber-went to dark cells to await trial for murder. Grilling began to discover who else had carried the score or more weapons collected, who had smuggled in Convict Brown's gun and a hatful of ammunition. Governor Young returned to Sacramento and Folsom Prison to bitter routine...
...leave it, I see." In Paris, a fire was built and on the fire were placed the first pages of the diary. Like the fires that smoulder in the autumn along country roads, this fire burned slowly and with an acrid smoke as if there had been some bitter taste in the old crisp leaves that it was compelled to chew. For two days the secrets that had been written down so neatly upon paper, were translated into a soft and fragmentary tongue before they perished into smoke. Sir Basil Zaharoff, content to disregard a questionable fame that might have...
...their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking of his grave on a windy hill; Rembrandt staring at his face in many mirrors; Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare; and Voltaire writing his thin and bitter curses. These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed biography. But there can be and there is the power and discernment that has made Author Ludwig perhaps the most able contemporary...
...could retaliate with bitter jibes directed either at the morose undergraduate author or at the Alumni publication which would print such fiction. But after all this is merely another of those merry occasions which gather such enviable publicity for two great universities, and even an avid press might eventually weary of petty bickerings, founded on untruths. One might question the point or the intended moral of such noble statements as. "In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning...