Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate one bitter speech followed another. Texas' white-maned Senator Tom Connally shook a trembling finger at Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, accusing him of pouring out "the vomit of his hate, prejudice, rancor and ambition." While Bob Taft pleaded with him, Idaho's banjo-playing Democratic Senator Glen Taylor cunningly piled books on his desk as though he was preparing to make a long harangue. He sent a note to the press gallery: "Don't worry . . . I'm not going to make a speech. I just want to drive Taft to distraction-senatorial...
...fifth member of the team was Chairman David Lilienthal. He was a man who had roused bitter controversy. He was a vigorous personality and people felt strongly about...
With these bitter words the editors of the Episcopal weekly Living Church last week publicly undertook to "bow our head in shame for our own church." Their bitterness and shame were intensified because they had printed an editorial a few months before, taking Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill...
More & more Europeans have become convinced that the road back for their continent lies through Germany. The Germans themselves are not looking that far ahead. They are bitter, cynical, well-nigh hopeless. Berlin Correspondent Percy Knauth last week cabled glimpses of the German scene...
...Woodrow Wilson's closest friends, Professor Harper sometimes disagreed and sometimes fought with him, but always made up ("Don't let this little spat spoil our friendship," Wilson would say). During all the bitter months when Wilson split faculty and alumni by insisting that the new graduate school be made part of the college itself, Harper stood by him. Appropriately, Harper was the first to occupy the Woodrow Wilson chair of literature...