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Word: bitche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governments. Last week U. S. newspaper readers rubbed their eyes to read that on a single day Emma Goldman came out for President Roosevelt and Henry Ford came out for the NRA. Jailed during the war for urging young men not to enlist, once sworn at as a "damn bitch of an anarchist.''* Emma Goldman was deported to Russia during Attorney General Mitchell Palmer's anti-Red drive of 1919. She spent years wandering across Europe. Few months ago, faded and old (64) but still defiant, she went to Toronto on a British passport, applied for permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...unevenly mixed Coward-Barry-Lonsdale ancestry is painfully evident. In welcome relief to these mediocre features is the character portrayal; with the exception of the acidulous old lady who astounds the younger generation by being much more modern than they are and by freely using such words as bitch. Teresa, Sheridan, and Marcia are all well-drawn characters, easily recognizable. Yet in spite of this excellent delineation, in the big scene between Marcia and Sheridan, what should be a tensely dramatic situation turns all too easily into a saccharine and obviously adumbrated fiasco; mutual forgiveness between them finally comes when...

Author: By H. F. K., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/12/1934 | See Source »

...pinked. Instead, Preston's young brother (Owen Davis Jr.) shoots Buck Buckner dead. At this point a touch of speakeasy dialect slips into the Dixie murmurings of Playwright Owen Davis. One of the guests at Twin Oaks looks straight at Miss Julie and says: "You're a bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...that there are mice inside when you stand on the front stoop of No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. But you get used to the smell. Everything is very clean. In immaculate white linen dress Dr. Slye sits behind a rolltop steel desk littered with papers. Dolly, her fat bull terrier bitch (currently ill), wanders in & out. In the next room and upstairs and downstairs are rows and rows of small cages, piled one on top of the other, looking something like beehives. In them are 10,000 mice. Each mouse has a history. Cancerous mice, ranging anywhere from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer by Inheritance | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilisation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class of 1914 | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

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