Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...
...years ago on a drizzly December morning 75 Russians stood in the lounge of the M. S. Lafayette, each solemnly breaking off a bit of rye bread and dipping it in salt. The ceremony was an ancient one, observed in Russia by peasants and tsars. On this occasion it was intended to bring good fortune to the dancers of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, arriving in Manhattan for their first U. S. season...
...channel to Le Havre. All the French were very seasick, but there was one man who was English and he sat himself down and put a robe over him, placed a vomiting pan under his chin and then began to read his paper. He wasn't a bit excited, but the French were groaning and saying 'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!' and they were all green. Mamma and I stayed well." In Moscow the children went sightseeing. "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead six years but he didn't smell." After living in France...
...poor old state of Georgia, just beginning to lift her head from the shame wrought up by "Fugitive from a Chain Gang," has had more coals heaped upon her by its sequel, "Road Gang." We are a bit skeptical about the horrors of Georgia state prison camps, as "Road Gang" paints them, but if they are authentic, we do not hesitate to dub it one of the most dramatic--yes, gripping--frame-up stories of the year. The movie is good blood-and-thunder stuff: political muckraking, frame-ups, jail-breaks, murder, the lash, electrocution. The action moved so fast...
...Great Ziegfeld" is unquestionably the most ambitious musical film to date. It's a bit long, but on such a tremendous scale and so well integrated that it commands attention throughout. The thing has to be seen to be believed...