Word: bitters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what they agreed to, we will turn our backs on them and take up the war with Japan." In Roosevelt's case, it was a question of "some operation in 1942" and a "lingering predilection for the Mediterranean." The resulting compromise was the invasion of North Africa, a bitter disappointment to Stimson, but "the only operation that satisfied both...
...Cradle's sometimes crude, sometimes clever music. But time had been less kind to The Cradle itself. It seemed more strident and less exciting; it had also become less topical. Its cockiness about labor- which had led it to treat the bosses with contemptuous laughter rather than bitter words-seemed early New Deal, not postwar. The Cradle's stagecraft, far from seeming daring, almost seemed dated. Only where Blitzstein's best talent-for mimicking fashionable chatter and parodying popular songs-came into play, was The Cradle really...
...multimillionaire (Cecil Kellaway), plagued by deathbed conscience, leaves a million dollars to a secretary (Joyce Reynolds) who believes that life is just like all the movies she sees. She knows, accordingly, that money is the root of all evil, and will spoil her marriage with Robert Hutton, a bitter young writer. As it turns out, he is thoroughly satisfied; but she can't believe it and hurries off to Reno. Best idea in the picture: the husband becomes a national hero among men, a national monster among women, by demanding alimony...
...along the coastal slopes near Hilo, Vice President Robertson ran into trouble. Remembering their costly, 79-day strike of 1946, many sugar workers were bitter at Robertson's call for "an army of strikers." He lectured them sternly: their attitude that "the bosses are all right" was "dangerous thinking...
This Christmas Week in the Holy Land, shepherds went armed, travelers to Bethlehem were shot at, and wise men stayed indoors. An atmosphere of fear, gloom and tense anxiety thickened. Man is against man, and over all Palestine there has been bitter fighting...