Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Booper. Today, Paderewski has long since passed the peak of one of the most spectacular careers in the history of music. But the life of success that he looks back upon in the pastoral elegance of Riond Bosson was won with bitter years of discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies...
...past several years Eliot and Kirkland have been bitter rivals for the cup. The Deacons won the championship after a close fight last winter; this year the Elephants turned the tables on the Kirkland team...
...inner pocket and fastened with a safety pin. He also had liver and stomach trouble that has persisted ever since. Moving into i studio apartment on the Boulevard de Clichy with at last some actual comfort, he worked furiously, with less gaiety, with a beginning of the bitter, abstracted air which characterized him later. In 1912 he moved to Montparnasse. In 1914, saddened by the departure of most of his riends for the War, he left Paris to live in the suburb of Montrouge...
...Cincinnati's tax money has been poured at the rate of more than $1,000 a day in bond interest. By the time its bonds finally fall due, in 1967, the Cincinnati subway will have cost $19,000,000. It has never carried a passenger. Once during a bitter Depression winter, a score of shivering hoboes holed up in one of its diggings, until they were driven out by the police. But no tracks were ever laid in its 2.6 miles of underground or 13.9 miles of overground right...
...threatened drive is best explained as a sympathetic vibration from a bitter controversy which has long ranged within New York labor circles. There, in an atmosphere much beclouded--perhaps almost completely conditioned--by personal and political factors, several local teachers' unions have been unceasingly persecuted by a few other teachers, a good many rival labor leaders, and the Hearst press en masse. Because of a personal connection between the New York embroilment and the A. F. of L. Committee on Education, which is responsible for the "red" scare, it is easy to conjecture the latter as a deliberate maneuver...