Word: bittersweet
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...Bittersweet. Railroad equipment makers built 10,387 freight cars for domestic use in June, for the first time this year reached their goal of 10,000 cars a month. But S. M. Felton, president of the American Railway Car Institute, was still unhappy. Dwindling steel deliveries, said he, threaten to put July production below the goal...
...funeral Peter's sensations of contrast between Big City excitement and small-town torpor have real force. The resurrections of his high-school love affair and the interlude with the Hadley Republican feature writer, a "promising" young lady journalist in her and Peter's bygone teens, catch the bittersweet of memory spanning adolescence-to-thirty...
...Family Album," the remaining play, is a sentimental period piece. Its mood is bittersweet, and Coward has written one of his best bittersweet songs for it--a waltz entitled "Hearts and Flowers." And if it is not so neat as the opener, it is also nowhere nearly so superficial...
Your story of March 14th on the Bureau of Study Counsel stirred bittersweet memories. May I use your columns to correct two misstatements in the article...
...Housman, late master of the bittersweet lyric, got a further unveiling as a comic poet by Brother Laurence in The Atlantic. Fragment out of A. E.'s boyhood, quoted by Laurence from memory...