Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a strong feeling of disgust that I read your review of the motion picture, San Francisco. ... I think TIME sounds a bit ignorant and not at all funny when it refers to Miss MacDonald's very fine performance as "acting with her teeth" and to her exceedingly lovely rendition of Nearer, My God, To Thee as "yodeling." The earthquake scene is a very creditable piece of cinematic engineering, but without the beautiful voice of Jeanette MacDonald ... it would never achieve the audience response which it does...
Beginning slowly and calmly in his luscious brogue, Father Coughlin assured the Townsendites that he had not come to persuade or dictate to them. He simply wanted to tell them a few things about the National Union. Bit by bit. rehearsing his familiar indictments of the Federal Reserve Banks and the "money changers." he stepped up-as Adolf Hitler does-his speed and volume. By the time he reached President Roosevelt's failure to keep his inaugural promise to drive the money changers from the temple, the Priest was sweating as freely as had Preacher Smith...
...know, Boss, I've always been considered a bit odd. I've never gabbed about G. H. Q.,' and many things I've done were not understood except by my mother, who taught me where real direction comes from. ... I had been a nut for years, for not leaving my wonderful mother for some man, to save myself from being an old maid. My mother was called by G. H. Q. very suddenly. Without asking for it, I was given the knowledge, as mother was leaving, that where there is real devotion there is no parting...
...Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten by his public when the War was over, he worked his way up in bit parts, made his cinema debut in Gap Perdu (1930). U. S. audiences have seen him as the father in Poll de Carotte, in the French version of Les Miserables...
...surprised that anyone sufficiently up-to-date as to be a reader of TIME should cherish such an anachronism as the bit in Miss Radway's letter...