Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July, two years ago, when the unionized employes of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. went on strike. It was April, this year, when other miners in western Pennsylvania went on strike. It was bitter November last week, when some 400 officials of the American Federation of Labor and subsidiaries met in Pittsburgh to hear of the hardships and grievances of the Pennsylvania miners and their striking comrades in West Virginia and Ohio who, with dependents, brought the total number of sufferers...
...overburdened physical suffering, he yielded to a temporary depression, but I ask you, comrades, to imitate him not in his death, but in his life, which was dedicated to the purest principles of Marx and Lenin, under whose flag he marched, as we march, to the bitter...
PORGY-The bitter adventures of a cripple in Charleston's Negro quarter...
...Significance of these and the other nineteen pieces that the small book encloses are in some way explained by the quotations that furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact...
...Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity of Albert Bacon Fall was important evidence in the Teapot Dome scandal. Editor Magee is a fighting man, a bitter enemy of municipal, state or national corruption; calling a spade a spade and saying it with headlines. He is the new editor of the Oklahoma City News, Scripps Howard paper...