Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ministers, took his seat on the Government bench, the Right parties of the Chamber arose, yelled: "Amnesty for Lenoir and Bolo Pasha."* The Premier began to read his ministerial policy. He touched upon the War sacrifices made by France. "Caillaux, get up the dead!" cried deputies (the bitter insinuation that the dead were turning in their graves because the hated Caillaux was again Minister of Finance...
Pennsylvania R. R. is by no means to be forgotten, even if the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate has enjoyed most of the limelight. The Nickel Plate was quite anxious to acquire the Virginian R. R., and neither the New York Central nor the Baltimore & Ohio would have wept bitter tears at being asked to take it over...
...person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind it. In his new book, he writes a series of satiric squibs about religion, Europe, chorus girls, Finnish dramatists, athletes. They are not in his best manner...
...last stand of the Cabinet was made in the Senate, which invited the Premier to call for a vote of confidence as he had done the day before in the Chamber. The Premier accepted the challenge, took his seat in the Upper House and heard an able and bitter attack against his Government delivered by ex-Finance Minister François-Marsal, who categorically accused the Premier of deceiving the country by pointing out that the legal note circulation had been exceeded as early as February...
Such strong medicine as this requires bitter ingredients. These have not been faithfully furnished. Parts of the drama are heady, horrible. Parts of it are thin and tasteless. The author's name is Dan Totheroh. His ensuing chapters will be watched with interest. The acting was typical of a Greenwich Village production- some of it excellent, some of it shoddy...