Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Henry took a hand in the U.E.'s bitter inter-union fight. He gave his blessing to U.E.'s big bosses-Communist-line Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and Director of Organization James J. Matles, and their stooge president, paunchy Albert J. Fitzgerald...
...Bitter memories of 1945's 60-0 slaughter and an eager determination for revenge will dominate the thoughts of the Boston University gridders this afternoon when they line up against Harvard in the Stadium at 2:30 o'clock...
...repast had a residue that is unexpectedly heavy. "Dirty Eddie" has many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the sensuous surface of champagne, nylons, and silly, suggestive talk remains as lush as ever, and if there is any change from the old Bemelmans, it is that he is more bitter, more satiric, and quite a bit less kindly toward the decadence that he is writing about...
...Christ followed such a course, His career would not have included the bitter agony of Calvary. No doubt he would have lived to be a wealthy, opinionated "Christian" of the C. S. Lewis type...
...characteristic of Lewis. To him, scientists seem, most nearly to embody the Christian sin of Pride-setting up the human will against the Divine. For this sin, Adam & Eve were expelled from the Garden and the heroes of Greek tragedy were punished by the gods. Lewis is a bitter academic opponent of Oxford's "progressive element" of scientists and "practical" faculty members who would lay more stress on "useful" courses than on Oxford's traditional concern with the humanities...