Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union men & women and their sympathizers had been goaded to rebel against constituted authority, in legal robes and in blue uniforms. The police, when the violence had come, had added to it by eagerly swinging their clubs (see cut). An orderly strike had suddenly been turned into a bitter battle...
...strangers, and everywhere they were haunted by the past. Europe was a burial ground that held six million Jewish corpses; the survivors found life among the dead unbearable. They knew that the massacre had not been the work of a handful of Nazis alone, and they had acquired a bitter, all-inclusive suspicion...
Susan and Slick are the chief characters in Ethel Vance's new novel. In two previous novels, Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939) and Reprisal (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942), Author Vance, who under her real name (Grace Zaring Stone) also wrote The Bitter Tea of General Yen, has used her talent for melodrama to best-selling effect. .But Winter Meeting is quite a different kind of book-a brief, sharp study of the way in which lives may be turned upside down in the twinkling...
...Just as Bunyan's "Christian" wound up in the City of God, so Hogarth's "Tom Rakewell" awoke from the happy madness of Drury Lane's Rose Tavern to the chains of the miserably insane in Bedlam. The year he died (1763), Hogarth added a final bitter detail to this engraving: a ha'penny stuck against the wall to indicate that Britannia was also an inmate...
...spiritual content. It was begun shortly after the Nazis scurried out of Rome, photographed with a minimum of studio equipment on five-year-old film bought at fancy prices in the black market. The cast was half amateur, half professional. Despite these difficulties, Open City is a graphic, bitter, harrowing document and a denial of 21 years of Mussolini...