Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
...very well to demand stories of college life from college authors. The bitter truth, however, is that such efforts mean little or nothing either as fiction or fact. There is a thing known as a sense of proportion and it is not entirely out of place in literature. Practically any college student who has passed his elementary courses in English composition can sit down and describe the life around him-as he see it. And the consequence in the majority of cases is extremely uninteresting and also inaccurate. His proximity to his material makes proper vision impossible; what he sees...
...formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers struck during the general strike and 750,000 miners remained out until the last bitter weeks of the coal strike? To answer these unpopular questions, Chancellor Churchill sat down four square on his facts last weak, presenting his budget to the Commons as the one logical answer to a problem stated by Fate...
...this gossipy vituperation, Writer Forbes gives his explanation: "Some of the may be regarded as unduly harsh. The truth is that the writer has things here reported and quoted received a larger number of bitter letters from past and present Ford workers than has ever been received regarding any other employer in America...
Irish Destiny is a film made in Ireland by Dr. I. J. Eppel. It records with bungling artistry but unmistakable sincerity the struggle between the Irish Republican Army and the British Black-and-Tans during the bitter squabbles of 1916-22. Most interesting are pictures of the escape of 200 prisoners from Curragh Prison Camp, the burning of the Dublin Customs House, street fighting in the city. In spite of paucity of entertainment, the film holds the attention of those whose feelings are swayed by political, racial considerations...