Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite hobby. "I have learned not to run up a high temperature and blood pressure," said Speaker Moses, "over the intolerant off-scourings of minds inflamed by revolutionaries . . . the wisecracks of sophisticates who are the eunuchs of our metropolitan seraglio, the lofty disdain of ivory-tower planners, the bitter, irresponsible mouthings of the radical press, the cheese spread of radio commentators and the slipcover advertising of former mayors." The Institute awarded the Commissioner a gold medal: for "distinguished services to humanity...
After a valiant but fruitless effort to improve the sweatshop lot of working girls, Patterson went all out for Socialism. In 1906 he got in Dutch with his family by writing a bitter magazine piece called Confessions of a Drone. Excerpt: "I have an income of between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. I spend all of it. I produce nothing-am doing no work. I [the type] can keep on doing this all my life unless the present social system is changed...
...bitter public gossip about banquets for a few while millions starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls or "any improper place" and those who "invite prostitutes or singsong girls to amuse them" would be fired...
Four years of bitter war and a year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...
...that procrastination was bearing a bitter fruit. Germans in the Russian zone were eating 1,600 calories a day, in the U.S. zone, 1,275, m the British zone, 1,000. Much of the machinery left by Russian reparations grabbers was humming...