Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sole rights in the project and promised equal treatment to "all nations." Elihu Root, then a Senator, held that the law violated our treaty promise. President Wilson and Ambassador Page took the same attitude. In the Spring of 1914. the President asked that the law be repealed. After a bitter wrangle for several months this was done. Party lines were broken in the bitterness of the struggle. Senators Root, Lodge, Kenyon, MeCumber, Burton (Republicans) supported Mr. Wilson. Senators O'Gorman, Reed (Mo.), Chamberlain, Vardaman (Democrats) opposed the President...
WHAT PRICE GLORY??A battle song with some blood, no heroes and a blast of bitter irony. Deservedly the most popular play of the season...
...bitter towards those who are controlling the policy of Harvard at present. And I want them to know that those who came to Harvard because they love Art and the Drama were struck a painful and shameful blow when the fact was made known Tuesday that Professor Baker, representing creative Art at Harvard has been forced to resign: forced to resign because the liberalism of Harvard was not great enough to permit originality to flourish forced to resign because of the practical and narrow vision of those who control our universities...
...Bitter, indeed to all Harvard men is the announcement of the resignation of Professor Baker. No one can blame him. It is but what he was practically forced to do. For three decades lie has fought for decent quarters and equipment for his work and not office has his cry been heeded by the authorities. It is at the feet of the latter Harvard should lay the blame for his loss. The President and Board of Overseers with their shameful neglect are accountable for today's announcement. Their guilt must not go unnoticed. The facts of the present case demand...
...tidy store-a field goal, a touchdown. The field goal, as fine a specimen as ever was seen, was executed by Halfback Scott at the Princeton 45-yard line. The touchdown was deftly forward-passed by Halfback Pond to Tackle Joss. Princeton's portion was the same bitter, black medicine she had administered to Harvard the week before, medicine that many have to take after dining richly. Score: Yale 10, Princeton...