Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this bit of White pageantry, Spain's civil chaos remained in status quo, except that White Franco established his so-called Government as a Triumvirate, the two lesser prongs of this political trident being White North General Emilio Mola and White South General Queipo de Llano. "I promise cordial relations with every nation except Soviet Russia," cried White Franco, "and bread and heat for every Spanish home this winter...
...dazed idolatry, Thank You Jeeves, though sure to disappoint Wodehouse addicts, is still a passably amusing farce. Sample dialog: When Bertie is trying to say that a young lady called at his flat and left without explaining why she had come: "She just popped in, popped around a bit and then popped out again...
Prominent among the delights of the play is the program. If you haven't already been won over, go to the show for the sake of the program, which you can't very well get otherwise. It was written by a clever man whose wit was just a bit too fast for him. A sample: "as fast on the verbal comeback as a handball...
...Geneva last week the right to retain his delegation's seat in the Assembly of the League of Nations during its present session. British efforts to bar the Ethiopians, half heartedly seconded by the French, were called by veteran New York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Elliott "a bit of jugglery so contemptible that even a Tammany politician might have blushed to be connected with...
...that efforts had better be redoubled. President Francis had partial results of a survey made among 7,400 bank presidents and 50,000 "cross-section consumers." The evidence: 34% of the consumers thought they were better treated by shopkeepers than by bankers, 57% believed bankers were not doing their bit in Recovery, and 42% of the bankers were apparently aware of this attitude. Furthermore, while Franklin D. Roosevelt led all the rest on a list of men whose views on finance met with public approval, no banker showed up in the list until it had passed down through Ogden Mills...