Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism of Mr. Max Benshimol '95 of the New Preparatory School was especially bitter. "No institution can thrive on injustice," he asserted, "and the recent ruling is certainly an unjustice. I believe in preliminary fall examinations...
...this sudden heat? Why this blazing and kindling of fires at all points of vantage against the Business School? Why this lumbering and stubborn defense? Why, indeed, if it is not because the conclusion is ever becoming clearer and more bitter that if left to drift through courses, through rules and regulations, through requirements for a degree the ordinary student even in the College becomes labeled and earmarked as one concentrating in economics, or government or English, or Romance languages, or physics and correspondingly narrow-minded? The idea of concentration is a splendid one; but it tends to produce economists...
...Exile has been very bitter. I believe I am a good Communist, an excellent internationalist, but I am first of all a Frenchman, a product of France according to the theory of Taine. I have seen apple trees in the Crimea, but they are not to be compared to the apple trees of Normandy...
...beginning of the debate was enlivened by the re-entry into the Chamber of the Communists, who decided to abandon their boycott in order to be able to heckle the Government. Their spokesman, Signor Grieco, was not long in starting his attack. In a bitter speech, full of the usual Communist phrases, he attacked Fascism mercilessly for its policies, its achievements, its existence...
...Married Men. In one brilliant burst of writing, Vincent Lawrence has sliced wide for inspection a bitter, all too prevalent tragedy. For no reason at all except that they are five years married and that she loves suddenly another man, a wife tires of her husband. This she must tell him, hating herself therefor, yet powerless before the fact. Tomorrow she will run away...