Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrestling sages prophesy that Boston and Harkness will put on a close, bitter fight. Harkness, undefeated during his last two college seasons, was rated the third best man in the country, while Boston has an unblemished record and won the New England Wrestling Title...
...sooner or later be recognized as such by all the world. But for two years the Opposition had been balked in their desire to put Britain on the Leftist side and they were at least going to say their say at the finish. If the censure motion was bitter, it was nothing compared to the way in which terrier-sized Clement Richard Attlee, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, tied into Mr. Chamberlain. Said Major Attlee: "It looks as if the Prime Minister has given away everything and got nothing in its place, not even a 'thank...
When peppery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia took office in 1934, he designated Samuel Seabury and A. A. Berle Jr. to try again. Their $436,000,000 proposal was rejected after public hearings by the Transit Commission as too high. This brought bitter words between the commission and Mayor LaGuardia. but last year they got together for a final...
...nurtured. Soon most of the other well-known leaders who had worked with Mahatma Gandhi followed suit. For Pandit Nehru, however, there was a difficult choice: he was doctrinally sympathetic toward Mr. Bose but his personal devotion to the Mahatma was intense. He finally chose devotion and, in a bitter letter to Mr. Bose, resigned...
...keep for his second wife and their baby until Depression hit the art market. From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant on the Federal Art Project. After that obscurity and poverty closed in. He wore himself out trying to design and sell andirons and door knockers, was in bitter straits when he died, three weeks ago, on Staten Island...