Word: bitterer
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Because that small group a bitter reactionaries, who for reasons of national selfishness, shrinking provincialism, and hatred of President Wilson, defeated the Peace Treaty and League Covenant in the Senate, accomplished the nomination of Senator Harding, because, if elected, he would do their bidding...
...from the excellent point made by Mr Ferguson in today's Crimson, there is the Cuestion of what effect the death of the Lord Mayor will have on the minds of many people. Among those who have always been pro-Sinn Fein, it will serve only to intensify their bitter hatred of England, but the greatest effect will be upon the minds of those who are friendly to the British Empire and wish to see the Irish trouble settled in a just and satisfactory manner. It will awaken them to the fact that the question cannot be settled...
...Columbus, Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Carrizal, of Villa and of Carranza; of Lenine and Trotzky, and our soldiers who died in Russia without knowing why they were sent there or for whose cause they fought, is enough to make all Americans, "who never fight," blush with shame and bitter humiliation. And now to these awful chapters must be added the Haitian chapter--a scandal which the mendacious mal-administrator of the Navy Department is now trying to whitewash by appointing his own investigators to investigate his own record after he has been "caught with the goods" and "smoked...
...time has come, however, to realize that a compromise is imperative it any workable solution is to be attained. The very word, "compromise", has about it a smack of surrender and a suspicion of failure that make it detestable alike to the "bitter-ender" and the "die-hard". The proposer of a compromise usually calls upon himself the wrath of both opposing sides; in the end, however, it is the compromise which triumphs...
...easy it is for a man to become an anarchist whom the New York Municipal Court has refused to aid in collecting a $6.60 bill because he did not possess the necessary ten dollar fee; or again, how brief is the passage on the part of our immigrants from bitter disillusionment in our machinery of justice to sedition and disorder...