Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House passed 273 to 199 the labor government's so-called Unemployment Insurance Bill (TIME, Nov. 25, et seq.) amid bitter plaints from Clydesiders (see above) who demanded that even bigger doles be handed out to the unemployed...
...pass verdict on the passive role of the Plymouth Rock in the establishment of Boston society, a British Debating Team, composed of former members of English colleges, now at Harvard, and a Radcliffe College team are to clash tonight in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, at 8.15 o'clock in a bitter dispute. The question is: "Resolved, That it would have been better if the Plymouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrim Fathers, rather than the Pilgrim Fathers on the Plymouth Rock...
Musical: THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus score), BITTER SWEET, SONS O' GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN...
Vigorously last week Tardieu L'Américain lashed into the Deputies a proposal to hold three sessions every week day until the budget is voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did a double-snapper with his whip-demanded that they sit thrice a day on Sunday too. Rebellion loomed, but Ringmaster Tardieu fired a figurative blank cartridge, demanded a vote of confidence. After less than a month in Power he has the Deputies so thoroughly cowed that they licked his hand...
When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed...