Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was another factor in the bitter equation which no one would admit but which unquestionably was there: Lilienthal...
...57th Street traffic below, he said it for an hour and 20 minutes. A lot of it was on the state of the orchestra whose greatness he had restored. Improved, rather. But a lot more was about a man named Arthur Judson. His speech rose to a bitter, excited tirade that accused Arthur Judson, the handsome, leonine manager of the Philharmonic, of trying to run the orchestra and hamstringing the conductor. Mr. Judson, who was present, listened with interest...
Children of Vienna is a bitter little tale of conquered Europe's younger generation, its postwar jargon and cynicism and the still unconquered reasons...
Senator MeKellar's attempt to label Lilienthal as a dangerous radical failed. In this latest move in his bitter fight with the ex-TVA head over the latter's failure to bow to the Senator's patronage pressures, McKellar bias was too much even for his anti-Lilienthal associates. But, the more recent statements of Republican Senators Bridges, Wherry and Moore are all the more dangerous for their pious disavowal of McKellar's prejudiced position while, in the same breath, they say that they will oppose Lilienthal because it would be unwise to approve a man on whose character...
...started as an extraordinary child prodigy, worked with astonishing success at first, then was defeated by the intrigues of petty jealousies, and died in abject poverty, chiefly from overwork, at the age of 35. To this natural and interesting history the Italian producers have added a prolonged and bitter love affair with Aloysia von Weber, whose sister, Constanza, Mozart actually married after only a brief flirtation with Aloysia...