Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the implacable factions writhed the impotent moderates. Cried Chungking's independent Ta Rung Pao: "The corpses of those who have starved to death strew the roads. People eat grass roots and tree bark. . . . Troops are sucking the blood out of villagers. . . . Local officials are making their lives bitter. . . . What makes our hearts ache most is this: all China needs peace, without which we shall not survive. If ambitious persons insist on more adventures, we shall all perish...
...survived even this bitter thrust. He plastered California with billboard advertising. He went on lending even in the depression. And he went on expanding...
...than the run of screen plays; unfortunately, it is also more literary. Charlotte, represented as a cute little turkey, is the most fictional creature in the film; she also happens to be the most lively and convincing character. Branwell, theatrical as he is, does have his moments of authentic, bitter agony. Odette Myrtil has very little to do as a Brussels schoolmistress, but she does it so well that for a little while the whole film looks intelligent. Such intelligence is the measure of the good movie Devotion might have been. It measures also the general shallowness of feeling, thought...
...world's resources and expansion of world trade, waits blissfully for the lazy May days to commence its work. Evidently, the Council feels that matters of economic importance are secondary, capable of being postponed until the real problems have been settled. A hungry, cold, suspicious world cries bitter contradiction...
When they heard about his dismissal, Kestler's entire staff (51 enlisted men, three officers) forthwith entered requests for transfer. To correspondents, Kestler poured out a bitter account of Lee's heavy-handed interference with G.I. journalism. The General's attitude toward enlisted men, said he, was like that "of an old Southern plantation owner toward his slaves...