Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other of Dr. Work's subordinates said that all of Mr. Raskob's evidence was "framed up." Democrats were indignant and the episode was one of the bitterest in a bitter campaign. Said the Republican Chicago Tribune (echoed by its pro-Smith Manhattan satellite, The Daily News...
Thus Chicago, last week-up and away with a whoop and an "I WILL" boost-Harold Fowler McCormick for Smith, Julius Rosenwald for Hoover, William Hale Thompson for himself, and, as always, the bitterest possible fight for the post of State's Attorney...
Afterward he recorded his bitterest impression thus...
...exemplified in the famous Corn Laws. But with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm, scintillating wit, and considerable treachery, Disraeli immortally flayed his chief as "a great parliamentary middleman . . . who bamboozles one party and plunders the other," and reviled him for having caught the Whigs bathing and stolen their clothes...
...fallible. What if some mute, inglorious, but potential Has Rohmer is smothered beneath my own relish of Mary Roberts Rinehart? When my last manuscript is read, and I meet the Great Judge of the manuscript of life, shall I have made no errors of omission." One of the bitterest things in the publishing business, it is said, is that one never Knows. Perhaps the crime publishing business is the innocent victim of this intellectual frustration...