Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lacks what so many historical productions lack,--a sense of atmosphere. Mr. Burrows' article on our foreign policy is youthful and sincere, and (so far as it goes) arrestingly written. We prefer Mr. C. G. Paulding's short editorial on the late General Huerta to his longer article. Brief, bitter, and to the point, it reveals, like so much of the writer's other work, a personality which it were far better to agree with comfortably than combat. The only story in the issue--Mr. Dos Passos' "Cardinal's Grapes"--is a light trifle as the author intends...
...permission of the President, one's parents and a physician, could be obtained, was strictly forbidden. All men were supposed to be in their rooms before 9 o'clock at night, and on Sunday were forbidden to leave them for walking, visiting, or any other unnecessary business. "Idle, bitter scoffing, offensive gestures, the wearing of indecent apparal or women's apparal" made one liable to a whipping or a fine. Students at that time, however, proved that everything was not covered by the rules, and managed to execute such pranks as letting prisoners out of Charlestown jail
...with good grace that the quietus was put on effectively. It is, however, unfortunate that from statements like that quoted above, and from the paid-by the column wisdom of "Bill" and the rest, in the local press, the idea should become current that there is an organized and bitter "kick" at Brown over the Harvard line-up, or that Brown men are generally demanding: "Caesar, was it a dirty trick...
...mind that when the football team goes to Princeton it will put up a good game. It will fight hard. But its fight will be harder, its desire to win keener, if it has a crowd of supporters in the stands. Then victory will be sweeter, and defeat more bitter--consequently less likely...
...poets have been out-doors a good deal, chiefly at night. They have seen the moon, and one of them has clutched at it. They have observed the sea, and one of them has found it loving, fickle, faithless, wanton, cruel, bitter. They have noted sundry meteorological phenomena, and recorded them in lines that, to quote one of the salt water singers, "Dance on in wild unrythmic glee...