Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 1, 1909, word of Cook's claim reached civilization. Five days later Peary cabled his own claim from Labrador, followed it shortly by a bitter denunciation of Cook: "Do not trouble about Cook's story. . . . He has not been to the Pole. . . . He has simply handed the public a gold brick...
...Bishop Rowe could say that his church has "a prestige among the people of Alaska which is not enjoyed by the other communions." He plans to return to Alaska in January, to be among the Indians whose faith he admires. They will creep to church on hands & knees, against bitter winds which would blow a man down. "White people," says Bishop Rowe, "make me a little tired. They are ready to take everything, and give nothing...
Pierce Butler was a poor boy, born near Northfield, Minn., on March 17, 1866, but he had no Lincolnian tenderness for those in humble circumstances. His own bitter struggle to the top only taught him that those who were successful need not be held responsible for those who failed...
...hour's talk. But for as much as six months, representatives of the two countries bow deeply, sip tea, shake heads, pound tables, grin, frown, embrace, clench fists-throughout standing thunderously firm on impossible demands. Then, the day the first silvery smolts begin to run in the bitter waters off Sakhalin Island, the diplomats find themselves in sudden agreement, and sign...
Jeff Davis, sickly, handsome, humorless, egocentric, unimaginative, contrasted almost as sharply with Lee as with Lincoln. Almost kicked out of West Point, where he was 23rd in a class of 33, he considered himself a military genius. At West Point too began his bitter feud with Joseph E. Johnston. Cause: a tavern keeper's daughter. Elected to the Presidency by accident (delegates preferred Toombs), he was bitterly assailed by his own colleagues. ("That scoundrel Jeff Davis," said Toombs.) A bad guesser, he made his worst guess when he tried to force English recognition by withholding cotton shipments. That notion...