Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing sure to arouse a Southern Congressman, besides affronted Southern womanhood, is the perennial anti-poll tax bill. Last week Southern Congressmen were thus aroused. They spoke their usual bitter words, went down to their usual defeat when House Republicans joined with Northern Democrats and passed the measure...
...Books. By all odds the most popular war book ever written was the bitter and disillusioned All Quiet on the Western Front, by the German ex-soldier Erich Maria Remarque. It appeared in 1929, just halfway between two wars, and has sold more than 3,000,000 copies in 27 languages...
Responsible Army, Navy & Marine Corps officers deplored the fracas. They had learned from bitter experience that the airing of such interservice differences could do grave harm...
...garrisoned by the Japanese. In Shanghai itself their underground had organized students, waterfront and factory workers. The political pattern was similar to that in Poland, where the Communist-controlled underground clashed with the underground loyal to the Polish Government in Exile. In Shanghai the Communist underground was fighting a bitter, no-quarter battle against Chungking's underground, organized by keen, self-effacing General Tai Li, head of the Central Government's secret service. It was a battle in the dark, a focus of China's undeclared civil war, with both antagonists hunted by the Japanese, and hunting...
...There he touched off a controversy between Modernists and Fundamentalists which made Page-One news and rocked U.S. Protestantism to its foundations. One Sunday morning in 1922, Fosdick delivered a blistering sermon, in which he said: "Just now, the Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin Birth, the literal inspiration of the Scriptures, the belief that Christ will return "upon a heap of blazing clouds." He concluded: "If people must accept these interpretations...