Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems too bad that the President has not a right to attend a church service as a man, instead of being made the centre for all eyes. There is one thing that both his warmest friends and his bitterest enemies must concede to the President, and that is his consistency in church attendance. He is genuine in his attention to his spiritual duties...
Debt Funding Agreements. The bitterest struggle in House and Senate was over the Italian agreement which provided for only about 25% repayment (of the present value). But the argument that Italy could pay no more carried the day. The Senate finally gave its consent (TIME, May 3) and agreements with Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Esthonia and Latvia followed in quick succession (TIME...
That's My Baby. Douglas McLean is a mobile and generally attractive gentleman who occupies his time with comedy. This one is perhaps less laughable than usual. It tells about a mobile and generally attractive stockbroker who fell in love with the fair daughter of his bitterest rival. Much of their wooing took place at a charity bazaar, in which most of the assembly had put on silk trousers and just gone Turkish...
...reports of the Geneva event, before the actual invitation to the meeting or detailed explanation of plans or purposes, aroused the Senate. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, bitterest of the irreconcilables, exclaimed...
...minds of college men have been poisoned against the Bible by those very people who most believed in it. They have held it up as a good holy book filled with deep moral lessons. They have advertised it in a way certain to fill any normal boy with the bitterest loathing. Soft handed ministers have spoken of it in hushed, strained voices, Sunday school teachers have branded its messages among the unpleasant memories in the minds of their young disciples. Its simple, powerful legends have been darkened by the smoke of wordy sermons, while the listeners watched the moving...