Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then suddenly, the attacks on Dr. Weizmann's administration from the fiery Russo-Jewish-Parisian swashbuckler, Jabotinsky, became so bitter that the Weizmann group insisted on a special rate of confidence in their leader with a view of his reelection. But two-thirds of the delegates refused to vote. Confusion spread. Dr. Weizmann stung by the ingratitude of Jewry, resigned, refused reelection. Confusion was confounded...
Died, Thomas L. Hisgen, 67, unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. Presidency in 1908 (Independence League), bitter opponent of the Standard Oil interest; at Springfield, Mass. In 1880 he pawned a treasured violin to get capital for a projected axle grease factory. By 1898 he and his three brothers owned the largest grease factory in the world...
...longer were the courts of the West Side Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...
...Stahlhelm, Monarchist men. The leader of the Republican Reichsbanner fired shots into the air with the object of dispersing the Monarchist Stahlhelm. Unable to stop the swarms of glaring Monarchists, he fired into the crowd. A Stahlhelmer fell dead. In a flash, both organizations were locked in painful, noisy, bitter conflict. Bashed-in noses, black eyes, shredded ears, large blue bruises were the wounds inflicted. The police, arriving speedily on the scene, added a number of cracked skulls to the casualty list. Quiet was eventually restored. The Republican Reichs banner leader gave himself up to the police...
...because of its bitter attacks on the late President Woodrow Wilson), and Lydia Lopokova, 33, famed Russian danseuse...